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In 2002 she was added to the Beach Shaggers National Hall of Fame's Keepers Of The Dance. She is also listed in Shag Atlanta's memorial.

Upon graduating from college, Mitchell worked as a third grade teacher at Stoneville Elementary School in Stoneville, North Carolina. She continued to compete in the non-professional shag circuit, including in two national championships. Mitchell was the Non-Pro Champion of the National Shag Dancing Championship. She and her dance partner, Brad Kinard, won the championship in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina in 1998.

Mitchell died on March 20, 1998, a week after she won the National Shag Dancing Championship. She and her mother were driving in their car when an F3 tornado hit Stoneville. Their car was thrown against the Claybrook Car Dealership as the building collapsed. Mitchell's mother was taken to the hospital in critical condition. Mitchell died on the scene from the impact. She was one of two people in Stoneville killed during the 1998 Gainesville-Stoneville tornado outbreak.

Friendship Park in downtown Stoneville was built as a memorial to Mitchell and Powell Hickman, a local farmer who was also killed by the 1998 tornado.

Mitchell began dancing Carolina shag, a form of swing dance, when she was nine years old. As a teenager she became a competitive shag dancer and, at the age of fifteen, she joined the National Shaggers Association. Mitchell attended Dalton L. McMichael High School, where she was a member of the cheerleading squad. In 1990 she made the All-Star Cheerleading Squad for the 42nd Annual East-West All-Star Games in Greensboro. After high school, Mitchell earned a bachelor's degree in elementary education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she had also been a member of Alpha Chi Omega.

Elizabeth Webster "Beth" Mitchell (October 7, 1972 – March 20, 1998) was an American educator and competitive shag dancer. In 1998 she won the National Shag Dance Championship in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Mitchell was killed during the 1998 Gainesville–Stoneville tornado outbreak a week after she won the championship.

Mitchell was born on October 7, 1972 in Greensboro, North Carolina to Worth Mitchell and Nancy Lee King. Her maternal great-grandfather was the politician and businessman James Jefferson Webster. She was a grandniece of Captain John Ray Webster and a first cousin once-removed of checkers player Jeff Webster. Through her mother she is descended from Scottish emigrants George Irving and Jane McDonald, who came to the United States in 1834 from Closeburn, Dumfriesshire aboard the Hector. On her mother's side she also descends from the Robertson family, a colonial Virginian family, through her great-great grandmother Margaret Hurt Robertson.