She was the youngest woman to win the 400 metres hurdle event at the Australian national championships.

[2][4] In 2004, she was named the ACT Sports Star of the Year – Junior Athlete and earned the Pierre de Coubertin Award.

[4] Boden started competing in open age races when she was sixteen years old.

[7] As a seventeen-year-old, Boden competed in the 400 metre hurdles event at the 2006 Commonwealth Games,[1][4] but did not make the finals.

[4] Boden competed at the World University Games in Bangkok in 2007, where she finished fourth in the qualifying round with a time of 58.72 seconds.

[7] In February 2012, Boden clocked an A-standard Olympic qualifying time of 55.45 seconds at the Sydney Track Classic.

[7] In 2007, Boden competed in the long jump event at the Australian national championships, where she finished second with 6.39m with an illegal tailwind (+4.1 m/s).

[3] That same year, she competed at the World University Games in Bangkok where she finished sixth with a jump of 6.40 metres.

[3] Boden beat her personal best time during a meet in Dormagen, Germany in the last weekend in June 2012.