Education
She attended high school at Newlands College in Wellington before transferring to Tū Toa, a Māori sports academy in Palmerston North.
She attended high school at Newlands College in Wellington before transferring to Tū Toa, a Māori sports academy in Palmerston North.
During her early high school years she focused on basketball, playing with the New Zealand U16, U18, U19 and junior Tall Ferns teams. Amaru-Tibble eventually played netball at Tū Toa, coached by Yvette McCausland-Durie. In 2008 she qualified for the New Zealand U21 team to travel to Australia.
She also made the preliminary squad for the following year, but she did not make the final team to compete at the 2009 World Youth Netball Championships in the Cook Islands.
Carpenter was eventually dismissed as coach of the team, but Amaru-Tibble was retained for the 2009 season under new head coach McCausland-Durie, where she has played as a goal shooter partnering Paula Griffin. In 2009 Amaru-Tibble also played with Pharmaceutical Inspection Convention in the Wellington Regional Super League, in the leadup to the National Provincial Championships.