[2] Ward became interested in cycling after participating in the Around the Bay in a Day in 2005 and the Great Victorian Bike Ride in 2006 when she was in the fifth grade at primary school.

[1][3] She was sidelined between 2015 and 2018 with a series of injuries including glandular fever and a broken ankle after a gym accident in which it was crushed by a 250 kilogram leg press,[4] but she came back to win the women's sprint and keirin at the Australian national titles in 2019.

[5] She represented Australia at the 2019–20 UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Brisbane but missed out on selection for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

[1] At the 2024 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in March 2024, they won bronze in the tandem B Sprint and the 1 km time trial.

[6][7] Ward was selected as pilot for Gallager at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris,[8] where they won silver in the Women's B 1000m Time Trial.