Jody & Shannon
Relationship	Grandmother/Granddaughter
Teammates	Jody Kelly Shannon Foster
Season	16
Place	10th
Age Average	46.5
Average Placing	10

Jody Kelly and Shannon Foster are a Grandmother/Granddaughter team on the 16th season of The Amazing Race.

Contents 1 Team 1.1 Jody 1.2 Shannon 2 Season 16 3 Memorable Moments 4 Records 4.1 Franchise 4.2 American 4.2.1 Season 16 5 Trivia 6 External Links

TeamEdit

JodyEdit

• Age: 71
• Hometown: Round Rock, Texas
• Connection to your Teammate: Grandmother
• Current Occupation: Personal Trainer
• Pet peeve about your teammate: Sometimes her clothing choices seem a bit too revealing
• Favorite Hobbies: Triathlons, writing, reading and challenging myself
• Achievements: Other than giving birth to my four children, I am most proud of leaving behind my sedentary lifestyle five years ago and starting to live a healthy, athletic lifestyle
• Lifelong to do List: Finish a half ironman triathlon. Finish a full marathon. Publish another book. Motivate people to become active. Climb more Colorado mountains. Walk the Appalachian Trail. Go trekking in Norway. Bicycle through the Netherlands. Develop a TV show featuring elderly athletes
• If I could switch places with someone: It might be fun to be Carol Burnett for half a day, but then I'd want to come home
• Role Model/Hero: Sister Madonna Buder who finished the Kona ironman at age 78.
• What are you passionate about? I'm passionate about giving hope to people who think they can't change and helping them improve their lives
• What would you do if you won the million dollars? Donate half to the Strengthmobile Foundation and spend the other half on a 500-square foot condominium within a mile of Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas
• People would be surprised to learn: For two years in the mid 1990s, I performed amateur stand-up comedy to compensate for a really grim period I was going through
• Favorite place you have ever visited: Rural Ireland and Hua Hin, Thailand
• Biggest challenge you and your teammate will face on the Race together: Communicating and working together as a team
• What do you hope to accomplish by running the Race (other than winning one million bucks)? As the oldest person who has ever participated in the Race, I hope to show that age is more than a number

ShannonEdit

• Age: 22
• Hometown: Georgetown, Texas
• Connection to your Teammate: Granddaughter
• Current Occupation: Healthcare Outreach Contract Analyst
• Pet peeve about your teammate: Grandma can get a bit uptight at times and has a tendency to get carried away
• Favorite Hobbies: Running, dancing and swimming
• Achievements: Getting my degree in Economics from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas
• Lifelong to do List: Run a marathon, earn a medical degree or physician assistant degree and join Doctors Without Borders
• If I could switch places with someone: I would never switch places with someone
• Role Model/Hero: All the strong-willed and capable women that I am related to -- my mom, grandma and great-grandma
• What are you passionate about? Staying fit and healthy and helping others do the same
• What would you do if you won the million dollars? I would backpack across Southeast Asia
• People would be surprised to learn: I lived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from eight months old until I was almost 10-years-old
• Favorite place you have ever visited: Either Angkor Wat in Cambodia or the Great Wall of China
• Biggest challenge you and your teammate will face on the Race together: Making quick decisions without my Mom acting as a middleman
• What do you hope to accomplish by running the Race (other than winning one million bucks)? To get a chance to travel with my grandma and to have an opportunity to practice making decisions in a fast-paced and competitive environment

Season 16Edit

• Leg 1: 10th

• Leg 2: 10th (Eliminated)

Memorable MomentsEdit

Elimination Station Via Chile(07:19)
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• Eliminated when they had to take a later bus to Puerto Varas; even though they passed Louie & Michael who went the wrong direction, their chances slipped away at the Roadblock when Jody got hit by a cow, spilling her milk.

RecordsEdit

FranchiseEdit

• Oldest grandparent/grandchild team, 46.5
• First grandmother/granddaughter team.
• Lowest average placing female team with an age average of over 40, 10 (tied with Lisa & Joni).
• Largest age gap between the teammates for any team, 49 years apart.

AmericanEdit

• Jody, age 71, oldest contestant ever.
• Lowest average placing team who came in 10th, 10. (tied with the Black Family, Lisa & Joni, and Kevin & Drew)

Season 16Edit

• Oldest team, 46.5
• Oldest team who did not earn a spot in the final three, 46.5
• Lowest average placing female team, 10.
• Lowest average placing female team who didn't earn a spot in the final three, 10.
• First female team to be eliminated.

TriviaEdit

• Episode 2 Title: "When the Cow Kicked Me in the Head" --Jody

External LinksEdit

• CBS Biography
• Facebook: Facebook.com/jody.kelly.37

The Amazing Race Season Index
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The Amazing Race 16 Teams
Brent & Caite · Carol & Brandy · Dan & Jordan · Dana & Adrian · Jet & Cord · Jody & Shannon · Joe & Heidi · Jordan & Jeff · Louie & Michael · Monique & Shawne · Steve & Allie

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