She was selected in representative Victorian state eights to compete for the Queen's Cup in the Interstate Regatta at the Australian Rowing Championships on ten occasions between 2002 and 2012.

[1] In 2005 and 2006 she was also Victoria's senior sculling representative contesting the Nell Slatter Trophy at those same Australian championships.

[2] Selby Smith made her first international representative appearance as stroke of Australia's women's coxless four at the 2004 World Rowing Championships in Banyoles, Spain.

Both crews were victorious and Robyn Selby Smith finished 2005 as a dual World Champion.

For the World Championships in Munich the selectors had a wealth of women's talent from which to choose given the high and even standard.

Leading into 2012, she played a vital role in the battle to enable a women's eight to represent Australia for the first time since Beijing.