Kareyeva started her career at her hometown club AGU-Adyif. For the 1998-99 she joined GK A-Elista Krasnodar for a season before returning to AGU-Adyif. In November 2001 she joined
HC Lada Togliatti. Here she won the 2002, 2003 and 2004 Russian championship and the 2002
EHF Cup Winners' Cup. In 2004 she joined Danish team
GOG together with her national team colleague
Inna Suslina. Here she won the 2005 Danish Cup. In the final she scored the most goals for her team with 6. Between 2006 and 2008 she returned to Russia and played for
Zvezda Zvenigorod. She retired in 2008 following a knee injury, she had gotten during the
2008 Olympics. She debuted for the
Russian national team in 1998. At the
2000 European Championship she won bronze medals with the Russian team. A year later she won the
2001 World Championship. At the
2005 and
2007 World Championships she also won gold medals, and she also won a silver medal at the
2006 European Championship. At the
2008 Olympics she had a knee injury during a match versus Brazil in the preliminary round, and this was the last match of her career. ==References==