She primarily competed in Italy and won marathon races in Florence, Carpi, Turin, Padova and Piacenza.

Born in Lagonegro, Potenza, she started her international career at the 1992 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, where she came 41st in the junior race.

She represented Italy at the 1995 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships and began to make her impact on the road running scene in the late 1990s under the tutelage of Renato Canova.

[9] These performances gained her two further senior international selections: she was 21st at that year's European Cup 10000m and was chosen for the marathon at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics, where she again finished in 21st (just behind team mate Rosaria Console).

[13][14] Making a rare appearance outside the Italian road circuit, she ran at the Berlin Marathon in September and came sixth.