As a member of Team Canada, she won three gold medals and one bronze during the Paralympic Games.
[1] After becoming paralyzed from the waist down at the age of 16 following a car accident, Ohama was approached a Calgary Grizzlies player in a store who convinced her to play the sport.
[2] She was eventually invited to tryout for the Canada women's national wheelchair basketball team in 1989.
[3] Ohama made her senior debut at the 1992 Summer Paralympics, where Team Canada won gold.
[7] In June, Ohama was awarded a $5,000 Team Investors Group Amateur Athletes Fund bursary.