[1] At the 1984 World Rowing Junior Championships in Jönköping, Sweden, she came fourth in the single sculls.

When they came second at the World Rowing Cup at Rotsee in Lucerne, they were called up not long before the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

[4] The New Zealanders won their repechage and thus qualified for the A final,[5] where they came third, putting a five second margin between themselves and the East German team in fourth place.

[9] Payne later married Peter Mills, a rowing coach from her Waikato club.

She trained as a doctor in New Zealand,[1] and as of 2008 was completing a fellowship in paediatric ear nose and throat surgery in London.