Aged six, Hibberd took up BMX before moving onto mountain biking and then road cycling.through a talent identification scheme.

[6] Hibberd began her professional career in 2005 when she entered the Geelong Tour and the New Zealand World Cup, finishing 60th and 48th overall, respectively.

[9] She took a second-place finish in the road race and third in the criterium events of the Women's National Grand Prix Series.

[10] An illness required her to sit out several events in 2007;[11] Hibberd came second in the 2007 Australian National Criterium Championships in the Elite category.

[14] On 6 July 2011, she was with her training partner and fellow cyclist Diego Tamayo in fine weather conditions on a road between Appiano Gentile and Lurate Caccivio to the north of Milan when a friend driver struck her at around 10:45 local time.

[4] The organisers of the 2011 Giro d'Italia Femminile cancelled the podium ceremony for its sixth stage out of respect for Hibberd.

[15] The competing Australian riders planned to wear black arm bands in Hibberd's memory and they requested a moment of silence be observed to remember her before the seventh stage began.

[6][18][19] On 20 January 2015, Toowoomba Regional Council voted unanimously to name a park in its "Cycling Estate" located on Nelson Street, Kearneys Spring after Hibberd following lobbying by Budden for additional memorialisation of the cyclist.