From 1987 to 1993 she played for Auckland in the National Provincial netball tournament, and in 1991 she was selected to play for the Silver Ferns, representing New Zealand in the 1991 World Netball Championships, where the team won a silver medal, losing 52–53 to Australia in the final.
[2][3][4][5][6] Since retiring, Leaver has held a wide range of coaching positions in the Auckland area.
In 2010 she took up a position as netball coach at One Tree Hill College, a coeducational secondary school located in the district of Ellerslie in Auckland.
Since 2014, she has also coached netball at Baradene College of the Sacred Heart near Auckland.
In 2015, Leaver established a charity called ShoeBoxx, which aims to fight poverty by supplying children and youth with sports shoes.