She competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics with the best individual result of 42nd place in the floor exercise.

In 1956 she graduated from Lake View High School and then studied at a college in Michigan.

She then moved to Sarasota Florida with her first husband Bill Markley, but they later divorced.

In the early 1970s Racek lived in Australia with her first three children and her second husband Paul Budrunas.

Later she moved back to the US to Littleton, Colorado, where Racek and Budrunas ended their marriage.