Lariba represented the Philippines in international table tennis competitions. She led the Philippine team to a first-place finish in Division 4 of the 2014 World Table Tennis Team Championships in Tokyo, Japan with Jamaica Sy. She also competed at the 2013 and 2015 Southeast Asian Games and qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics through the Asian qualification tournament held in Hong Kong in April 2016. She was the first Filipina table tennis player to qualify in the Summer Olympics since its introduction in 1988 as a demonstration sport. In preparation for the Olympic qualifiers, Lariba underwent training in South Korea and was trained by Korean coach Kwon Mi Sook. She also competed in the 2016 Asean University Games, her last tournament before the Olympics.