She won a bronze medal in the K-1 team event at the 1991 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Tacen.

She missed out on competing in the 1992 Olympic Games after part of her kayak touched a gate.

[2] She first kayaked as a child at Valley Mill Camp in Maryland.

She studied political science at MIT, gaining a BA in 1986, and worked at Arthur Andersen from 1987-1989.

She died, aged 43, from breast cancer, in Washington, D.C.[3] She was married and divorced from George Michael Fleshman.