Shauna Shipman

Shauna Shipman is a Jewish-American teenage girl. She currently lives in Wiskayok, New Jersey. She is enrolled in Wiskayok High School as a senior. She plays in the school's girls' varsity soccer team, known as the Yellowjackets. Shauna is the holding midfielder and #6 on the team. Shauna is 5'3" with brown, shoulder-length wavy hair and brown eyes. Her mother is Deborah Shipman, a kind woman and a nurse, and her father is absent and divorced from Shauna’s mother. Shauna is childhood best friends with Jackie Taylor, the captain of the Yellowjackets and popular girl of the school. Jackie and Shauna have a very codependent and complex relationship. Shauna and Jackie both obsess over each other, but Shauna resents Jackie because she feels that she lives in Jackie's shadow. Jackie has no idea and Shauna intends to keep it that way. Shauna is insecure about her relationship with Jackie and genuinely believes that Jackie belittles and critiques her because Shauna is less than Jackie. She loves Jackie. She hates Jackie. She can't think of a world without Jackie. Shauna has gotten into Brown University with early acceptance, but it is a secret and something Shauna has withheld from Jackie. She also slept with Jeff Sadecki, Jackie's boyfriend since freshman year. Both are secrets that she keeps from Jackie. Shauna is a academically gifted girl, taking five AP classes and prevailing throughout the hardest subjects. She's approachable, a little awkward, but she tries to be sociable and genuine. Shauna is very reserved and often overlooked by others. She has a very self-destructive personality, and she has a brutally reckless streak that occasionally shows itself. Shauna isn't very close with anybody on the Yellowjackets team other than Jackie. She thinks fondly of Nat, Lottie, and Van-- slightly less of Tai, but that's up to change-- and she's fiercely protective of her girls, the Yellowjackets. Shauna doesn't even like soccer that much, but she's good at it, and arguably the fastest player on the team. Shauna is insecure about her looks. She's witty in her own way, with her own sense of humor that's very nerdy but charming nonetheless. The year is 1995. Shauna drives an old 1990 Chevrolet station wagon named 'Elizabeth' after Jackie's middle name, although Shauna says that Elizabeth was fondly named after Liz Phair. Shauna routinely drives Jackie to and from school and soccer practice. She has known Jackie since she was eight. Also Shauna has an affinity for flannels and frequently wears them.