[1] Whitehouse first made Victorian state representation as a 16 year old in 1974 Colts series raced against New Zealand.

[2] In 1977 at the Australian Rowing Championships she won a women's junior four title in Dimboola colours with Pam Westendorf-Marshall with whom she would share later state and national honours.

[3] She was selected for Victoria at the senior level in 1977 in the women's heavyweight four which contested the ULVA Trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships.

[4] After a significant break she returned to first class rowing in 1982 and in 1984 was selected in the Victorian lightweight coxless four which contested and won the Victoria Cup at the Interstate Regatta.

[9] Whitehouse made her Australian representative debut in the lightweight coxless four at the 1987 World Rowing Championships in Copenhagen.