PRIOR TO MSU: Bradshaw hails from Columbus, Ohio, and Worthington Kilbourne High School, where she was named to the all-conference second team as a senior and as an honorable mention choice as a freshman in cross country. As a senior, she was 35th at the conference championship and 114th at the regional competition. As a junior, she was 11th in the conference and 25th in the district. That year, she also ran at the Nike Cross Midwest Regional Championships, where she placed 81st. She also ran at the 2022 meet and placed 79th. As a sophomore, she was 26th at the conference finals and 72nd at the district championships. In her freshman season, she was 15th at the conference meet, 35th at the district meet and 84th at the regional meet. Outdoors, she finished 18th in the 1,600m at the 2026 Super Regional  and five times was a part of a relay team that placed first, second or third in her senior year. Indoors, she also claimed 17th in the state qualifier in the 1,600m. As a junior outdoors, she finished 12th in the district championships in the 1,600m and was seventh in the 3,200m at the conference meet. Indoors that year, she was seventh in the 1,600m and 13th in the 800m at the state qualifying meet. As a sophomore outdoors, she was fourth in the 3,200m and third in the 4x800m at the conference finals, while also placing eighth in the district championships in the 3,200m. In five of her six outdoor 1,600m races as a freshman, she finished in the top three. In the other, at the conference meet, she was seventh. That season, she also claimed sixth at the district finals in the 3,200m. Her 4x800m relay was second at conference and fourth at district. In her first high school indoor campaign, she was second at the district finals in the 4x400m and fifth in the 1,600m. A four-year member of both the cross country and track and field teams, she also won the Wolves Inc., award as a senior for track and field.