Jody & Shannon

Jody Kelly and Shannon Foster are a Grandmother/Granddaughter team on the 16th season of The Amazing Race. They participated in the first two legs and were the 2nd team eliminated.

Jody

 * 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

Shannon

 * 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 16

 * Leg 1: 10th
 * Leg 2: 10th (Eliminated)

Memorable Moments
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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.

Franchise

 * Jody, age 71, oldest contestant ever.
 * Lowest average placing team who came in 10th, 10. (tied with Lisa & Joni, Kevin & Drew, Marcelo & Narciso, Edwin & Monica, Neena & Amit, and the Black Family)
 * 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).

Season 16

 * 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.

Trivia

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