At age 19, Rodolph was the top North American in two of the three races at the 1950 World Championships in Aspen, with a fifth in the downhill and eighth in the giant slalom. She also finished fifth in the giant slalom at the 1952 Olympics in Oslo, Norway, and fifth in the combined at the 1954 World Championships in Åre, Sweden. Named to the 1956 Olympic team, she incurred neck and knee fractures in downhill training at Kitzbühel on January 14, less than two weeks before the games began at Cortina d'Ampezzo.