Honors: 2025 NCAA West First Round appearance... Three-time recipient of USTFCCCA All-Academic honors... 2022 NCAA West Preliminary Round Qualifier in the 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters ... ranks 10th on the UW top-10 performance list in the 10,000 meters ... 2020 and 2021 Academic All-Big Ten in cross country ... 2021 and 2022 Academic All-Big Ten in track ... 2022 Second-Team All-Big Ten in cross country .... 2022 All-Region in cross country... 2023 Academic All-Big Ten in cross country
| Personal Bests |
| Indoor |
Outdoor |
Cross Country |
| Mile |
4:49.13 |
1/21/22 |
1500 meters |
4:40.98 |
4/9/21 |
5K |
16:46.7 |
10/2/21 |
| 3000 Meters |
9:16.56 |
2/1/25 |
3000 meters |
9:39.55 |
5/8/21 |
6K |
19:55.1 |
11/15/24 |
| 5000 Meters |
16:00.79 |
12/7/24 |
5000 meters |
16:01.12 |
4/23/22 |
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10,000 meters |
33:30.02 |
4/1/22 |
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2025 Outdoor Track: Placed 12th in her heat of the 10000 meters at the Bryan Clay Invitational, covering the distance in 33:31.11 (Apr. 18)...
Finished in 13th in her section of the 5000 meters at the Stanford Invite, turning in a time of 16:03.47 (Apr. 4).
2025 Indoor Track: Earned a fifth-place finish in the 5000 meters by covering the distance in 16:13.2 at the Big Ten Indoor Championships, while also placing 23rd in the 3000 meters with a time of 9:26.17 (March 1)... Finished in 13th in the mile at the Wisconsin Windy City Invite, covering the distance in 4:55.20 (Feb. 14)... Placed eighth in the 3000 meters championship run at the Meyo Invite, turning in a time of 9:16.56, a new personal best (Feb. 1)... Earned third place at the Dr. Sander Invitational in the 3000 meters with a time of 9:19.68, a new personal best (Jan. 25)... Competed in the 5K at the Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener, earning a personal best and 10th place in her heat with a time of 16:00.79. Inserts herself at No. 8 all-time at UW (Dec. 7).
2024 Cross Country: Placed 145th at the NCAA Championships, completing the 6K course in 20:47.2 (Nov. 23)...
Led the Badgers with a 12th-place finish at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional, sprinting a 19:55.1 6K, good for all-region honors (Nov. 15)...
Tallied her second personal best of the season, this time at the Big Ten Championships with a 6K time of 20:01.0, finishing in 27th place (Nov. 1)...
Earned a personal best at the Wisconsin Pre-Nationals, covering the 6K course in 20:15.6, good for 52nd place (Oct. 19)...
Placed 30th at the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational in her season debut, finishing her 6K race in 20:40.6 (Sept. 27).
2024 Outdoor Track: finished 32nd in the 10,000 meters crossing in 35:32.54 at the NCAA West Preliminary round (May 23)... finished ninth in the 10,000 meters crossing in 34:08.28 at the 2024 Big Ten Outdoor Championships (May 10)... finished 20th overall in the 5000 meters crossing in 16:27.19 at the Penn Relays (April 25)... competed in the 5000 meters crossing in 16:29.74 finishing 20th at the Bryan Clay Invitational (April 12)
2024 Indoor Track: Did not compete
2023 Cross Country: Did not compete
2023 Outdoor Track: Did not compete
2023 Indoor Track: Finished fifth in the mile in 4:50.15 at the Larry Wieczorek Invitational (Jan. 20) ... won the 5000 meters in 16:16.62 at the Indiana Relays (Jan. 27)... finished seventh in the 3000 meters with a personal best time of 9:20.12 at the Windy City Invite (Feb. 10)... finished fifth in the 5000 meters in 16:14.83 and eighth in the 3000 meters in 9:32.09 at the Big Ten Indoor Championships (Feb. 24-25)
2022 Cross Country: Placed fifth at the Roy Griak Invitational (Sept. 23) covering the 6K course in 20:59.1 ... placed 54th overall at the Nuttycombe Invitational (Oct. 14), covering the course in 20:33.2 (6K) ... earned second-team All-Big Ten honors with a 8th place finish at the Big Ten Championships (Oct. 28) covering the course in 20:26.3 (6K) ... placed 14th at the Great Lakes Regional (Nov. 11), covering the course in 20:18.6 (6K) ... placed 94th overall at the NCAA Championships (Nov. 19), covering the course in 20:34.9 (6K)
2022 Outdoor Track: Ran a personal best of 3:30.01 in the 10,000 meters, placing 12th at the Stanford Invitational (April 1) ... recorded a personal best and finished second in the 5,000 meters in 16:01.12 at the Oregon Relays (April 23) ... placed fourth in the 5,000 meters in 16:26.99 and fourth in the 10,000 meters in 34:38.72 at the Big Ten Championships (May 13-15)
2022 Indoor Track: Finished fourth in the mile with a personal best of 4:49.13 at the Larry Wieczorek Invite (Jan.21-22)... placed ninth in the 3000 meters with a time of 9:26.60 at the 2022 Indiana University Relays (Jan.28-29)... placed a personal best and finished seventh in the 3000 meters, crossing the line at 9:21.89 at the Badgers Windy City Invite (Feb.11-12)... placed fifth in the 5000 meters with a time of 16:30.87 at the Big Ten Championships (Feb.25-26)
2021 Cross Country: Placed 32nd overall and seventh on the Badgers at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional (Nov. 12) in a personal best time of 20:38.9 ... finished 29th overall and eighth among UW runners at the Big Ten Championships (Oct. 29) in 21:24.6 ... was the fourth UW finisher and 89th overall at the Nuttycombe Invitational (Oct. 15) in 21:12.0 ... led the Badgers at the Live in Lou Classic (Oct. 2) after placing sixth in the 5k in 16:46.7 ... placed second overall and second on the UW team at the Bradley Intercollegiate (Sept. 17), covering the three-mile course in 16:23.3 ... won the Badgers Classic (Sept. 10) in 18:31.3 for 5.2k
2021 Outdoor Track: Placed second in the 3000 meters with a personal best of 9:39.55 at the Wisconsin B1G Invitational (May 8) ... ran a personal best in the 5000 meters in 17:00.23 at the Fighting Illini Big Ten Relays (Apr. 23) to place 19th ...also finished fifth in the 4x800-meter relay in 9:05.84 at the Fighting Illini Relays ... placed 44th in the 1500 meters with a personal best of 4:40.98 at the Big Ten Invite (April 9-10)... finished sixth in the 5000 meters with a time of 17:09.04 at the M City Classic (April 30-May 1)
2021 Indoor Track: Did not compete
2020 Cross Country: Did not compete
2020 Outdoor Track: Season canceled due to COVID19
2020 Indoor Track: Did not compete
2019 Cross Country: Ran a season best of 21:51.2 in 24th place in the B race at the Nuttycombe Invitational (Oct. 18) ... placed 17th in 18:13.4 at the Loyola Lakefront Collegiate Invitational
High school: Conference champion in the 1600 meters ... qualified for state in the 1600 meters ... MVP of Middleton's Girl's track and field team ... also lettered in soccer
Personal: Parents are David Ruhly and Moira Harrington ... mother competed in soccer at Providence College from 1991-94, also competed in track (1993-95) and cross country (1995-96) ... father played hockey at Providence College (1993-97) ... has one brother, Sean... majors are psychology and biology ... volunteers with UW Health ... member of the Mercile J. Lee Scholars program
Why Wisconsin?
"The stellar combination of athletics and academics has remarkable resources and facilities to enable me to reach my goals."
Off the course with Shea
Where is your favorite place to run in Madison? Picnic Point
How would your teammates describe you? Crazy, straightforward, transparent, an aerobic machine
How would you describe the team? A lot
My favorite thing about Wisconsin cross country is: the inability to feel my toes when running come October.
Which teammate have you learned the most from and what have you learned? Alissa Niggemann - listen to your body
The best thing about the Zimmer Course is ... the hills
What is the strangest thing that has happened to you in a race? I had absolutely no clue what I was doing.
What are your individual goals for the season? Contribute to our team goals
When did you start running competitively? Track season of senior year in high school.
What do you love most about running? The second when both your feet are off the ground
Why did you choose cross country and/or track? The freedom
If you could go on a run with any one person, who would it be? Myself back in middle school
Post-college plans: Travel around the world
What is your career goal? Something that makes me happy
What causes do you care about? Mental health awareness
