She recalls attending the 2003 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship final when she was 12 with her father, Dave.
[3] She attended Malahide Community School where she played ladies' Gaelic football and captained the basketball team.
[9][17][18] Together with Noëlle Healy, Sinéad Goldrick and Hannah Tyrrell, McEvoy was part of a generation of Dublin ladies' footballers who won All-Ireland titles at under-14, under-16 and under-18 levels before playing for the senior team.
[10][19][20][21] McEvoy was a member of the Dublin team that won the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship final.
[33] In October 2019, McEvoy and her Dublin teammate Sinéad Goldrick signed to play for the Melbourne Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW) in 2020.