# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karen-shelton
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:54:02.185Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karen-shelton"
name: "Karen Shelton"
slug: "karen-shelton"
description: "Karen Christina Shelton is an American former field hockey player and coach. Shelton served as head coach of the University of North Carolina's field hockey program from 1981 until her retirement in 2022. She was a member of the U.S. National Team from 1977 to 1984 and a starter on the team that won the bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. She attended West Chester State and was a member of four NCAA championship winning teams. Shelton also qualified for the 1980 Olympic team but did not compete due to the Olympic Committee's boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russia. As consolation, she was one of 461 athletes to receive a Congressional Gold Medal many years later."
tagline: "American field hockey player"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1957-11-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.01
  momentum:             15
  historical:           8.939957333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Карен Шелтон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كارين شيلتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كارين شيلتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Shelton"
    title: "Karen Shelton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Shelton"
    title: "Karen Shelton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86_%D8%B4%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "کارن شلتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Shelton"
    title: "Karen Shelton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Shelton"
    title: "Karen Shelton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Шелтон, Карен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Shelton"
    title: "Karen Shelton"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6370028"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump