As a basketball player at Monmouth University, Thibault was named All-Northeast Conference in 2013 and scored 730 points overall.
Thibault began her career with Florida State University as their Director of Recruiting Operations during 2013.
[7] That year, she played "in the first round of the CIAC Class L girls' soccer tournament".
[10][11] During the late 2000s, Thibault was with the Rhode island Breakers as part of the Amateur Athletic Union.
[4] Thibault began her women's basketball career in 2013 when she went to Florida State University to work as their Director of Recruiting Operations.
[16] She continued her assistant coaching experience after moving to Mississippi State University in 2016.
[17] During 2018, Carly Thibault-DuDonis remained as an assistant coach upon joining the University of Minnesota.
In 2024, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association gave Coach of the Year awards to Thibault-DuDonis.