At age 13, she won her first accolade, when she came first in the 440-yeard junior title at
Melrose. The following year, at the
somerville YMCA, she won the New England women's senior backstroke championship. The next year she beat, by 0.2 seconds, the world record for the 75-yeard breaststroke, completing the distance in 53.6 seconds, 34th annual swimming meet of the
Brookline Swimming Club. At the
1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, McSheehy finished fifth in the final of the
women's 100-meter backstroke. She was also on the winning medley-race team. After the Olympics McSheehy appeared with one of the early professional swimming tours in
Boston, that also featured
Eleanor Holm. == References ==