Playing as Shelley Keeler at Pomona, Whelan won three NCAA Division III doubles titles, a singles title and a team championship.
She was a three-time NCAA Division III doubles champion, the 1992 Division III singles titlist and led the Sagehens to the 1992 Division III national championship.
In recognition of her extraordinary career, Shelley Keeler Whelan ’92 will be inducted into the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Women’s Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame on October 5, 2024, in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Known as Shelley Keeler during her collegiate career, Whelan was a four-time first-team All-SCIAC player and two-time SCIAC Player of the Year. She qualified for the NCAA championships each year in singles and doubles and swept the championships her senior season, sharing the doubles title with teammate Erin Hendricks ’92, claiming the singles title and anchoring the Sagehens’ national championship, Pomona-Pitzer’s first team title in any sport.
A two-time All-American, Whelan was inducted into the Pomona-Pitzer Athletics Hall of Fame in 2002, along with the entire 1992 team.