Vikki’s rugby involvement over the past 25 years is very extensive and includes playing in Canberra against Alberta Canada, playing in the winning teams in Sydney for the Royal Vikings and the Canberra Kestrels, membership of the 2002 World Cup Australian Wallaroos training squad, Captain of the ACT side in the Nationals Grand Final and coaching roles with Uni-Norths juniors and the ACT women’s rugby Nationals team.

As an athlete generally, she is super-fit having rowed and placed in the last four George Bass Surfboat Marathons from Batemans Bay to Eden; came second with Team Australia in the Ultimate Forces Challenge in Bali; recently completed a run in the Ultra Trail Australia 100 km run in the Blue Mountains; and has just competed in a 600km race around the Fiordland area in New Zealand.

She has two science degrees and is employed in an executive role with the Commonwealth Department of Agriculture with responsibility for facilitating and regulating Australia’s second largest commodity export sector worth $7 billion per year.

In addition to her public sector position, she and her husband own a number of businesses including a superfine wool sheep flock, Dexter cattle stud, a White Suffolk stud, a winery and a company called Rugbytots Canberra.