[4][5][6] Between 2012 and 2016 she attended the University of South Australia where she gained a Bachelor of Management in Marketing.

[3][4] In her youth, Proud played for Contax and the South Australian Sports Institute.

[20] Proud captained the New South Wales Institute of Sport team that finished third in the 2017 Netball New Zealand Super Club tournament.

[23] She captained the Swifts team that won the 2019 Suncorp Super Netball title, but missed the second half of the season because of injury.

[35] In January 2018, Proud became a published children's author after she released Grace on the Court, a book chronicling the life of a 13-year-old netball player in her first year at high school.