The following year, at the somerville YMCA, she won the New England women's senior backstroke championship.

[3] In 1929, at 15, she won a national backstroke championship in Chicago, and placed 3rd the 300-yeard medley title swim at the same event.

[4] At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, McSheehy finished fifth in the final of the women's 100-meter backstroke.

[6] After the Olympics McSheehy appeared with one of the early professional swimming tours in Boston, that also featured Eleanor Holm.

[7] McSheehy married sailor Wilson Huffman, from Luray, Virginia, in November 1945.