In a nine year career at the elite level between 1988 and 1996 she won sixteen Australian national titles, raced for Australia at five World Rowing Championships and competed at the 1992 and the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Initially a sculler, Luff first made state selection for New South Wales when she was picked as the 1990 single scull representative contesting the Nell Slatter trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships - she placed second.
[5] From 1993 to 1996 she raced at the annual Interstate Regatta in the New South Wales women's heavyweight four contesting the ULVA Trophy.
[9] In the double and the quad she was partnered with Gillian Campbell with whom she would share much national success and pair up for World Championships and Olympics.
[13] By 1995 Luff's Australian representative career was revitalised by a shift to sweep-oared boats under the coaching of Paul Thompson.
[3] The 1996 Olympic year marked Luff's final appearances at an Australian Championship and she went out on top of her game again winning the coxless pair title with Douglas, winning in the eight, placing 2nd in a coxless four and finishing third in a double scull, the boat class where her stellar career had started.
[15] Luff was straight back on the water in the first year of the new Olympiad and in 1993 she raced in a single scull for Australia at the World Rowing Cups II and III.