Wakefield won a championship as a member of the 2011 Brisbane Barracudas squad in the National Water Polo League.

[5] In 2008, she competed at the Queensland U20 state athletics championships in the event, finishing second with a 165 cm (5 ft 5 in).

[7] She eventually chose water polo over the high jump because she preferred to play a team sport.

[8][1][2] She took a semester off from school in order to concentrate full-time on playing water polo with the hope of making the Olympics.

[5] She competed at the 2009 Australian National U20 Water Polo Championships for Queensland, where her team finished second to New South Wales.

[1] She trains at the Queensland Academy of Sport,[1][2][3] and during the regular season, she may drive as many as 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) a week driving between home, university, the Queensland Academy of Sport, to training facilities and competition pools.

[2] The City South News in Brisbane describes her as an "Australian water polo prodigy".

[13][14] Wakefield represented Australia in 2006 at the U16 national team that competed at the New Zealand hosted Pan Pacific Championships.

[1] She was a member of the 2010 team that finished second at the FINA World League Super Finals held in La Jolla, California.

In a preliminary round match against Canada that Australia won 11–5, she made 10 saves in goal.

[17] In October 2011, as a representative of the senior squad, she attended a training camp at the Australian Institute of Sport.

[18] She was part of the Stingers squad that competed in a five-game test against Great Britain at the AIS in late February 2012.