At the 2011 World Rowing Championships in Bled, Slovenia, Louisa raced in the Women's Eight with crew mates Alison Knowles, Jo Cook, Jessica Eddie, Natasha Page, Lindsey Maguire, Katie Greves, Victoria Thornley and (cox) Caroline O'Connor. The crew won a Bronze medal, just 2 seconds behind Canada.

During the 2011 World Cup Series Louisa raced in the women's eight, taking a silver medal in Munich and 4th place in Lucerne.

At the 2011 GB Rowing Team Senior Trials held on 16-17 April at Eton/Dorney, Louisa and crewmate Jessica Eddie were second in the women's pair.

At the 2010 World Rowing Championships on New Zealand's Lake Karapiro, Louisa and her crewmates came 4th in the women's eight.

For the 2010 World Cup Series Louisa raced in the women's pair in Bled with Olivia Whitlam, taking 5th place, and in Munich with Jessica Eddie, coming 9th.  She also raced in the women's eight at all three events, winning gold in Bled, silver in Munich and bronze in Lucerne.  This was a promising season for the women's eight who had shown consistency throughout the World Cup series.

Louisa, with Olivia Whitlam, won last year's women's pair event at the GB Rowing Team Senior Trials in April.  This was a  repeat of their trials success in 2009. 

Louisa learnt to row at Downe House School but only took it seriously at Durham University where she was coached by Emma and Wade Hall Craggs. In 2006 she won a gold in the double at the World University Rowing Championships.

She has represented GB at the World U23 Championships twice, coming 5th in the four in 2006 and winning a silver in the quad in 2007.

Louisa won a bronze medal in the eight at the 2007 World Rowing Championships.  She had stroked the GB Women's eight to a silver medal at the World Cup Regatta in Linz that June and continued in the eight for the rest of the World Cup series, always reaching the A Final.

Louisa competed in the women's pair at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games with Olivia Whitlam and finished 6th, an exceptional performance after qualifying the boat at the final Olympic Qualification Regatta just seven weeks before.  She also took part in the final of the women's eight in Beijing, replacing an ill team mate, and finished 5th.

Having won the women's pair event at the 2009 GB Rowing Team Senior Trials, Louisa and Olivia continued to race in the women's pair for the rest of the 2009 season, taking gold at the first World Cup in Banyoles and bronze in Lucerne.  They also doubled up into the eight for the first 2 World Cups.  At the 2009 World Rowing Championships in Poznan they came 6th in a remarkable final where only a tad over four seconds separated the gold winning Americans from Britain's pair.

Louisa is Lottery Funded through UK Sport.