Fairhaven High School Hall of FameInductee Biographies

McKenna, Sheila (Tunstall)

Sheila (Tunstall) McKenna


Graduating class: 1958
Inducted into Hall of Fame: 1997
Hall of Fame Category: Athlete


Sheila Tunstall played basketball, softball, and volleyball. She was the Co-captain of the 1957-58 team that won the Narragansett League Championship, leading the team and league in scoring with 20.5 points per game. In her senior year she had a game high 42 points. In addition, she started at shortstop for the softball team and was voted "most athletic" in her 1958 class.

Sheila served her class as Vice President of the Girls Athletic Association, was a member of the Traffic Squad, Orchestra, Marching Band, and Concert Band, and was Concert Mistress of the band in her senior year.

Sheila graduated from Bridgewater State College in 1962 and was hired to teach Physical Education and coached field hockey, basketball, volleyball, and track at Attleboro High School.

She currently competes in track and road races and has medaled in the Senior Games in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Maine. She competed in the National Senior Games in Tucson, Arizona in 1997. Her mother, Mildred Parkinson Tunstall, was inducted into the Fairhaven High School Hall of Fame in 1994.

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