At the 2010 World Rowing Championships on New Zealand's Lake Karapiro, Olivia and her crewmates in the women's eight - Jo Cook, Louisa Reeve, Jessica Eddie, Victoria Thornley, Natasha Page, Lindsey Maguire, Alison Knowles and cox Caroline O'Connor - finished 4th.

For the first of the 2010 World Cup Series in Bled, Olivia raced in the women's pair with Louisa Reeve, taking 5th place.  This followed their first place in the women's pair event at the GB Rowing Team Senior Trials in April.  She also raced in the women's eight in Bled, winning gold.  In Munich and Lucerne she was in the women's eight which won silver and bronze respectively.  This was a promising season for the women's eight who had shown consistency throughout the World Cup series.

At the 2007 Essen International Regatta she took gold in the Under 23 women's pair event, before becoming World U23 Champion in July winning gold in the pair with Heather Stanning.  She had also competed at the World Cup Regatta in Amsterdam, winning the C Final.

Olivia was selected in the women's pair for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and finished 6th, an exceptional performance after qualifying the boat at the final Olympic Qualification Regatta just seven weeks before. 

Olivia, with Louisa Reeve, won the women's pair event at the GB Rowing Team Senior Trials in April 2009 and they continued to race in the pair for the rest of the 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. 

Olivia started rowing after being spotted by her school rowing coach for being tall.  She joined the GB Rowing Team's  Start Programme, sponsored by Siemens, in 2006. 

Domestically Olivia had been successful, winning the women's senior coxed four event at the Women's Henley Regatta in 2005.  She has also won seven BUSA medals, including two gold medals between 2004 and 2006.

Olivia has graduated in Environmental Science from Nottingham University.

Her interests include reading and watching films.  Her main hobby is horse riding which she has done since she was five years old.

She is Lottery Funded through UK Sport.