[6] She initially attended Bendigo Senior Secondary College, where she was coached by Heather Tyler, but, with her sights on qualifying for the Olympics, she moved to Melbourne to study at Mullauna College so she could be closer to the Aquanation diving facilities in Ringwood, Victoria, and her new coach, Max Swain.

[8] Competing in the Australian Open Championships in January 2008, she was placed ninth in the one and three metre springboard events and twelfth in the platform.

Her score was sufficiently good to qualify for the FINA world junior diving championships in Aachen, Germany in September 2008.

Initially bedridden, after a great deal of rehabilitation she recovered sufficiently to literally and figuratively stand on her own two feet again, moving out of home and resuming her university studies.

[2] At the Women's Festival of Wheelchair Basketball in Narrabeen, New South Wales, in 2015, Mellberg won the Emerging Glider award.