She played basketball with the Högsbo Division I Basketball Club in Gothenburg, Sweden from 1975 to 1978. In 1977, she spent the spring and summer in Los Angeles with American Högsbo basketball coach, Richard Wohlstadter. She began her track career there, training at the UCLA track and along the famous grass on San Vicente Blvd. She later received a scholarship to Lamar University in Texas where she played varsity basketball and ran track. It was there she met Andy Senorski, the track coach at Lamar. They later married, moved to Sweden, and had two children.