 Starting out singing folk songs and musical theatre and in her teens, operatic repertoire, she won many awards and scholarships from the St. John's Kiwanis Music Festival for both Piano and Voice.She was the runner-up in the Junior Rose Bowl in 1997, and then she landed her first lead role later that year as Anne Shirley in the Peter McDonald production of "Anne of Green Gables".In 1998, she won the Miss Teen Newfoundland and Labrador pageant.