A P-plate driver who hit and killed an up-and-coming professional cyclist after texting her boyfriend on a country Victorian road has been spared jail.

Billie Rodda, 22, was sentenced on Thursday to a three-year community corrections order after she pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the death of Jason Lowndes on December 22, 2016.

Billie Rodda at the Bendigo Magistrates Court in May. Credit:Bendigo Advertiser

She also pleaded guilty to a summary charge of using a mobile phone while driving.

Bendigo's County Court heard Rodda, a horse trainer, had texted her boyfriend on the morning of the crash to let him know she had finished work.