[1] She first took up various sports in her childhood such as tennis, gymnastics, martial arts, basketball, swimming, volleyball, and underwater hockey.

[4] Benitez played at the University Athletic Association of the Philippines for the De La Salle Lady Booters.

She scored the winning kick for her squad in the final of UAAP Season 61 beating defending champion, the UST.

On her junior year in college, she switched playing position from defender to midfielder and started to lead her squad.

[1] By June 2016, Benitez is already working with the Philippine U-14 girls team as an assistant coach to Joyce Landangan.

[8] By 2012, Benitez was already appointed as the Sports Development and Physical Education Director of the Philippine Women's University.