The third in a line of four swimming siblings, Julie Shea wrapped up her record-setting collegiate career last month at the New England Intercollegiate Swimming & Diving Association Championships held at the University of Rhode Island. The St. Michael’s College senior broke the school record in winning the 100-yard individual medley at the championships.

In her last 10 days of collegiate competition, Shea set four program records. Her older siblings, twins Sara (University of New England) and Patrick (Marist) swam from 2008-12. Her younger sister, Christine, is a sophomore at Springfield College. Their parents, Maureen and Brian, are swim officials, and her mom coached Julie her senior year at Peabody High. A two-time captain in high school, Shea started her college career at Assumption. But after her sophomore year, she transferred to St. Michael’s in Winooski, Vt., to pursue a degree in media studies, journalism and digital arts.

Q. What was it like to swim for your mother as the head coach?

A. I loved it. I guess I was used to always having her involved in my swimming so I loved it.

Q. Do you have family races? If so, who wins?

A. No, we don’t really have family races. But if we’re at the ‘Y’ practicing together, I guess I usually kick Christine’s butt in the 100-yard breaststroke and she kicks mine in the 200 breaststroke.

Q. Is breaststroke your go-to event?

A. Yes. I think breaststroke was the most natural stroke for me to pick up. We started with swimming lessons for safety, not for competitive reasons. Treading water is a super basic skill and it resembles breaststroke and I remember that as being most fun and I stuck with it. I tried backstroke for a while, but I don’t like water up my nose. Freestyle we do mostly for practice and you have to like it. I used to hate butterfly, but I just realized I’m pretty good at it. I should have done it more.

Q. What led to your transfer from Assumption to St. Michael’s?

A. During sophomore year I had taken a TV production class and I basically learned what I wanted to do and major in and Assumption didn’t really have that. I wanted to go somewhere I could take more classes in things like that. I loved all the professors there and hated that I needed to leave.

Q. Had that been one of your early interests?

A. I always liked those courses in high school and took all the classes in photography that were available in digital and in film, but never really got the video bug. When I got to Assumption and held a camera and had a microphone on someone to interview them I thought, ‘this is awesome.’ It was a love at first sight kind of thing. I walked into the fake studio on campus and could really see myself working there. I loved a lot of it high school, too. But my parents didn’t want me going to arts school. I guess I found my way back to it.

Q. What do you want to do with your major now?

A. I need to narrow down things in the communications field. Everyone needs social media, everyone needs public relations. I need to decide if I want to hold a camera, or want to write news stories. I need to decide what will make me happy going to work every day.

Q. What’s on your wish list of places you’d like to visit?

A. Lately I’ve been thinking I’d love to go to Yosemite National Park. Summer, winter, it’s always beautiful. I want to bring my camera and go crazy.

Q. Your camera?

A. I have a Canon p3i. I’ve had it a couple of years now. It’s my baby.

Q. What do you like to shoot?

A. Since I’ve moved to Vermont I definitely prefer landscape, especially with all the Vermont hills and covered bridges and fall foliage. . . . I like to go on adventures to take pictures and I have a bucket list of things I want to take. I want to take pictures of random things special to here. We’re home to the world’s tallest filing cabinet. There are a lot of weird things in Vermont.

Q. Pool, lake or ocean: Where do you prefer to swim?

A. I’m not really a fan of open water. I don’t like not seeing the bottom and in the ocean there’s seaweed and jellyfish, so I’m a fan of pools. There was a pond we used to go to all the time, I don’t remember the name of it. It was too murky for me. If you swam into a plastic bag, you’d think it was a jellyfish.

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