 North represented the country on the sprint relay team at the 1962 Central American and Caribbean Games, in Kingston, Jamaica.At the event, along with Althea Rolle-Clarke, Elaine Thompson, and Christina Jones-Darville, she was one of the four women to first represent The Bahamas in an international sports competition.North earned a Bachelor of Arts in History in 1966 from University of Newcastle upon Tyne and a postgraduate certificate in Education from the University of Leicester in 1967.