Russian U23 Champion of the year 2011, bronze medalist in the Elite ranking,[1] and a member of the National Team.

On 30 December 2010, the title Master of Sports (International Class) (Мастер срорта России международного класса)[2] was conferred upon two Saint Petersburg based triathletes, Shorets and Olga Dmitrieva.

In 2010, Shorets represented the club Triathlon SC Riederau in the German circuit Bundesliga.

[citation needed] Like Natalia Shliakhtenko, Mariya Shorets lives in Saint Petersburg, attends a High Performance Sports School for future Olympians (Государственное образовательное учреждение среднего профессионального образования "Санкт-Петербургское училище олимпийского резерва № 1", г. Санкт-Петербург) and represents the club or rather nationwide sports association Dynamo (Динамо).

In the five years from 2006 to 2010, Shorets took part in 13 ITU competitions and achieved 9 top ten positions.