Then, when she moved to the United States, her friends struggled to pronounce her first name correctly – it rhymes with "tidy" – when she was living there.

An award in Kean's honour, acknowledging qualities of compassion and bravery, is each year presented to a student at Kilbreda College, where she went to school.

[5] In 2011/2012, the Australian Sports Commission gave her a A$17,000 grant as part of their Direct Athlete Support (DAS) program.

[5][16] In September 2012, she played for Hamburger SV, which returned to Germany's top league after a two-season absence.

[20] In 2014 she returned to Australia, where she spearheaded the Minecraft Comets to their first ever national title win,[6] which was clinched by a crucial three point field goal by Kean in the final stages.

[5] She was selected to represent Australia at the 2009 Four Nations tournament in Canada, one of six players who played for the Dandenong Rangers in the WNWBL.

[8] She was part of the bronze medal-winning Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, known as the Gliders,[25] at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

Kean took up canoeing, coached by Gayle Mayes, who represented Australia at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

With her No Limits teammates from Mooloolaba, Queensland, she won gold in the Para Mixed V12 500m and the Para Mixed V6 1000m finals in at the IVF Va'a World Elite and Club Sprints Championships at Lake Kawana on the Sunshine Coast.