Having won the gold medal, President Joachim Gauck awarded the team the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (Silver Laurel Leaf), Germany's highest sporting honour.

She moved to Ludwigsburg to play for SV Reha Augsburg in the German national league in 2009,[2] but switched to the Frankfurt Mainhatten Skywheelers [de] for the 2011/12 season.

On 11 July 2009 during the International Paralympic Day celebration in Berlin, the team showed up at the Brandenburg Gate before 58,000 visitors, and Kühn gave President Horst Köhler a demonstration of the sport.

[9] 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,[8] the first that Germany had won in women's wheelchair basketball at the Paralympic Games since Stoke Mandeville in 1984.

[10][11] They were awarded a Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (Silver Laurel Leaf), Germany's highest sporting honour, by President Joachim Gauck in November 2012,[12] named Team of the Year for 2012.