Carola started riding on a Shetland ponynamed Pflaume and then moved onto riding pony Schneeflöckchen. At age 12, she went on training camps to Holger Schmezer in Verden as the road to a career as professional dressage rider seemed destined. Today in Warendorf, she rides 10 horses a day.

As of 2001, Carola is a certified riding instructor at the DOKR riding centre in Warendorf. Trained by Klaus Balkenhol, she is a rider successful thanks to her elegant and soft riding style, which has inspired many renowned horse owners to offer the ride on their horses to this young one. Carola was riding German chef d'equipe Holger Schmezer's Trakehner gelding Hinnerk TSF (by Buddenbrock x Ravel) and the licensed Trakehner stallion Insterburg TSF (by Hohenstein x Giorgio Armani). Both horses qualified and competed at the 2007 Nurnberg Burgpokal Finals.

The stepping stone horse in her career is the now 16-year old Hanoverian gelding Le Bo (by Lauries Crusador xx x Eisenherz). The chestnut gelding was reserve champion at the 1998 Bundeschampionate and finished fourth as a 6-year old at the 1999 World Championships for Young Dressage Horses in Arnheim, The Netherlands. The same year, he was proclaimed Hanoverian of the Year.

Carola got the ride on Le Bo when he was a three year old but she acquired him for herself in 2002. The highlight of her career so far was in 2005 when she became reserve German dressage Champion with Le Bo behind Heike Kemmer and ahead of Anja Plonzke.