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Shelby Bavin

5'3''
Height
Sophomore
Class
Alexandria, Va.
Hometown
Alexandria City
High School
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Shelby Bavin - Women's Rowing - Virginia Cavaliers

2022-23
• Named to the ACC Honor Roll

Background
• Graduated from Alexandria City High School in 2022
• Member of Alexandria City High School Rowing (Formerly T.C. Williams) from 2018-22
• Four-year letterwinner in rowing
• Also part of the Old Dominion Boating Club from 2017-21
• Guide Old Dominion to second-place finish at the 2021 Charlie Butt Regatta
• Placed fourth at the 2018 VASRA State Championship
• Finished first at the 2019 VASRA State Championship
• Placed fifth at the 2021 VASRA State Championship
• Finished third at the 2022 VASRA State Championship
• Earned 2022 Virginia All-Met Boy’s Rowing First Team honorable mention honors
• 2020 and 2021 Coxswain Award recipient
• Member of the National Honor Society and Honor Roll
• AP Capstone Scholar
• Math National Honor Society
• Participated int he Alexandria All-City Art Show
• Earned Girl Scout Silver Trefoil Award

Personal
• Shelby Virginia Bavin
• Born in Washington, D.C.
• Daughter of Bill and Sharon Bavin
• Has one brother, Will
• AVID Tutor/ Mentor
• Member of the Secretary Titans Fine Art Society
• Took a mission trip rebuilding homes and prepping schools in New Orleans
• Business Owner (@alexandriamuralco) – 1 Volunteer Mural and 1 Commissioned – worked closely with the Tinner Hill Historical Society in Falls Church
• Helped build an amphitheater in Alexandria
• Senior Girl Scout (150+ Community service hours)
• Participates in Take Steps, which is a yearly walk for Crohn’s disease
• Enjoys spending time with friends, hiking, drinking coffee, gardening, painting and listening to music
• Chose UVA because it felt like a place to call home for the next four years
• Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences