Amy Shields

{{Short description|American unicyclist (born 1990)}}

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Amy Shields (born March 7, 1990) is an American freestyle unicyclists. She holds five world unicycling titles and in her home continent she holds over 15 North American titles since 2001.{{Citation needed|date=February 2010}}

In 2002 Shieldz defied all odds at the 13th MONDO Jugglefest in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she attained the Guinness World Record for jump roping on a unicycle with an unprecedented 209 skips in one minute.[http://www.unicycling.org/btdt/fhs.html Skipping/Jump Rope] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612232153/http://www.unicycling.org/btdt/fhs.html |date=June 12, 2010 }}

In 2004, in the 12th unicycling world championship, she became world champion in pairs freestyle (with Ryan Woessner) and in female individual freestyle.{{Cite web |url=http://www.unicon12.com/english/index.htm |title=The 12th International Unicycling Convention and World Championships |access-date=2010-02-12 |archive-date=2009-06-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090628132008/http://www.unicon12.com/english/index.htm |url-status=dead }} In 2006, she again became world champion pairs freestyle with Woessner,[http://www.unicon13.ch/results/RL-Artistic-Pairs.pdf Artistic Pairs Freestyle Placing Results] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707004426/http://www.unicon13.ch/results/RL-Artistic-Pairs.pdf |date=July 7, 2011 }} and she finished in third place individual freestyle.[http://www.unicon13.ch/results/RL-Artistic-Individuals.pdf Artistic Individual Freestyle Placing Results] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707004433/http://www.unicon13.ch/results/RL-Artistic-Individuals.pdf |date=July 7, 2011 }}

Shields was the eighth person in the world to pass all ten levels of the International Unicycling Federation.

Besides being a world-renowned unicyclist, Shields also is a member of the St. Paul Figure Skating Club, where she has passed both her Senior Moves and Freeskate portions of the United States Figure Skating Association testing program.