She played for USC Munich in the German wheelchair basketball league, and for the national team that won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, after which President Joachim Gauck awarded the team with the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (Silver Laurel Leaf).
[1][2] She then took up wheelchair basketball, playing for GRBK Gothenburg in the Swedish league, but Sweden had no national women's team.
[5] They defeated the Australians 44–58 in front of a capacity crowd of over 12,000 at the North Greenwich Arena to win the gold medal,[4] the first that Germany had won in women's wheelchair basketball at the Paralympics since 1984.
[6] They were awarded another Silver Laurel Leaf by President Joachim Gauck in November 2012[7] and were again named Team of the Year for 2012.
[11] She has modelled for the advertising campaigns of team sponsors ING DiBa and LoFric, and is currently studying medicine in Munich.