She signed up for the Girls Athletic Association in the fourth grade; it was then that she learned of her love for volleyball.

[2] From 1991–96, Peppler mentored the number-one women's beach volleyball team of Karolyn Kirby and Liz Masakayan.

[3] In the 2000s, she coached Bulgaria's women's Olympic beach volleyball team, Lina and Petia Yanchulova.

In 2017, Pepper began serving as assistant coach to head coach Karolyn Kirby at the University of Saint Katherine in San Marcos, CA in the university's first year of having both a men's and women's volleyball team.

In 1978-79, Peppler joined the New Jersey Gems of the brand-new Women's Professional Basketball League.