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Brittany Sheffey                  Class: Senior Hometown: Bellport, N.Y. High School: Bellport Height: 5-5 Experience: 3L

CAREER BESTS

4K: 14:11.83 (2011)
5K: 17:11.71 (H.S.)
6K: 20:33.4 (2011)

CAREER HONORS: 2011, 2009, 2008 All-South Region...2011, 2009, 2008 All-SEC Second Team...2011 Capital One Fall Impact Performer...2011 SEC Co-Women's Runner of the Week...2011 SEC Preseason Watch List...2011 SEC Academic Honor Roll...2007 UT Freshman of the Year Award.

2011: Capped her career with her first appearance at the NCAA Cross Country Championships...Finished 44th out of 254 runners at the national meet with a 6K personal-record time of 20 minutes, 33.4 seconds...She was the fifth SEC finisher at NCAAs and just missed making All-America honors by four places (three seconds)...Qualified for the national meet by posting a career-best eighth-place finish at the NCAA South Regional, covering the 6K course in 20:46.2...Earned the third All-South Region nod of her career for that effort...Had two victories as a senior, paced UT in all six races and finished 24 of 24 career team races as a member of the Big Orange's scoring five...Charted the third 12th-place SEC Championships finish of her career and third All-SEC Second Team nod, clocking in at 21:00.63 over 6K on her home course...Won 5K Crimson Classic in a career-best 17:11.71, dipping 24 seconds below a PR that had stood since high school...Collected her first career cross country victory at the 5K Tennessee Invitational, running the course in 17:43.46 for the fifth-fastest mark ever recorded by a Lady Vol there and her then-best 5K mark as a collegian...Placed fourth overall and first for UT at the Belmont-VU Opener, with a 4K career-best time of 14:11.83...Finished 41st at the 6K Brooks Paul Short Run in 21:19.

2010: Redshirted due to injury...Named to the 2011 SEC Academic Honor Roll.

2009: One of UT's top runners as a junior, Brittany scored in all six team races...Earned All-South Region and All-SEC status for the second straight year...Placed 12th and ran second for UT at the 6K SEC meet in 21:49.62...Was third on the team and 20th overall at the 6K NCAA South Regional in 20:50.53...Was team's second finisher and placed fifth overall at the 5K Crimson Classic in 17:44.10...Had 4K (15:02.12, 19th) and 6K (20:39, 14th) PRs at the Belmont-VU Opener and Brooks Paul Short Run.

2008: Once again contributed toward the point total in all six of UT's races as a sophomore...Earned NCAA All-South Region and All-SEC honors for the first time in her career...Ran her 6K lifetime best at the conference meet, finishing 12th overall and second on the team in 21:02.25...Was the team's third scorer and placed 23rd at the regional meet in 21:42.91...Also contributed third-place team scoring roles at the Brooks Paul Short Run and Penn State National Invitational...She placed 33rd in 21:17 and 37th in 21:27, respectively, at those events...Ran fourth on the squad and 15th overall in 15:15.18 at the 4K Belmont Opener...Was sixth overall and fifth on the team at the 5K Tennessee Invitational in 18:56.

2007: Scored in all six meets as a rookie and received the team's Freshman of the Year award...Filled the No. 4 spot for UT at both the SEC Championships and the NCAA South Regional...Wound up 28th at the SEC meet in a career-best 6K time of 21:46.03...Placed 33rd at the South Regional in 22:01.87...Ran third for Team Orange at the 5K Bulldog Stampede and 6K Brooks Paul Short Run, placing 15th (18:36.65) and 66th (22:03), respectively, with a PR at the Paul Short meet...Began her collegiate career by scoring in fourth position and placing 16th overall in 15:07.33 at the Belmont Opener...Also ran fourth and took 28th overall at the 6K Penn State National Invitational in 21:46.03.

HIGH SCHOOL: Competed in cross country and track & field on the varsity level since seventh grade, helping her school win conference championships from 2002 to 2006, county track & field championships indoors and outdoors in 2004 and 2005 and a cross country county title in 2004...In cross country, Brittany was a three-time all-state selection and was named Suffolk County Outstanding Athlete in 2004 and 2005...On the oval, she was an All-American indoors in 2006 and earned all-state acclaim as the state champion in both the 1000m (2006) and 1,500m (2005) runs...Was chosen Suffolk County Outstanding Athlete in each of those two seasons...Outdoors, Brittany was all-state in 2004 after winning a state title in the 800m and in 2005 after claiming the state crown in the 1,500m...She was chosen Suffolk County Outstanding Athlete on each of those occasions...Took second in 2007 at the state indoor meet, running 2:55.07 in the 1,000m...Ranked fourth on Track & Field News' indoor prep list in the 800m at 2:10.77...Placed fifth in the 1,500m at 2007 state outdoor meet in 4:40.05...Was ninth in the 800m at the 2007 Nike Outdoor Nationals in 2:09.15.

PERSONAL: Completed her undergraduate degree in social work and is pursuing a master's in agricultural leadership...Her uncle is Justin Gatlin, a former NCAA champion at Tennessee and U.S. Olympian...Has five siblings: Paxton, William, Angel, Patricia and Yahannah...Brittany Sheffey was born in Hempstead, N.Y., on Dec. 18, 1988...Her parents are William and Patricia Sheffey...Recipient of Smolik Family Track & Field Scholarship Endowment.