Athletes

Peers is the reigning Most Valuable Player of the 2006 World Championship of wheelchair basketball where her Canadian women's national team won gold (August). She led the international women's division in scoring, total rebounds, offensive rebounds, three-point percentage, field goals and productivity. Peers followed it up with a gold medal at the 2007 Osaka Cup in Japan (February) and was named to the all-star team at the Australia Four Nations Cup (July). Meanwhile she led her Edmonton-based Women's club team to its fourth straight national championship (May), where Peers was once again named the championship's Most Valuable Player. Off-court she is an active and trusted leader in her sports community. Among other honors, Peers was unanimously nominated to act as commissioner of the Canadian women's league (August) and as the athlete representative of the high-performance teams. Her accomplishments on court, as well as her exemplary volunteer work off court, have already earned Peers some groundbreaking awards. She was the youngest addition to the Edmonton Sports Hall of Fame (June 2007) and the inaugural recipient of Basketball Canada's Outstanding Athlete of the Year (July), for which Peers edged out both male and female athletes of both the running and wheelchair version of the sport.