She has represented Great Britain at the 2011 Summer Universiade and the 2012 European Athletics Championships, as well as having competed for Wales at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

[1] Born in Chester, Peake initially competed in gymnastics but gave up the sport in favour of track and field as she grew older.

[1] That year she placed third at the UK Athletics Indoor Championships and won the Welsh outdoor title with a vault of 4.30 m (14 ft 1+1⁄4 in).

With her sights on a place at the 2012 London Olympics, she signed up with Birchfield Harriers andcontinued to improve the following year, achieving a height of 4.42 m (14 ft 6 in) on the Perche Élite Tour in February.

She retained her Welsh title and was runner-up at the British Olympic trials (behind Holly Bleasdale),[4] but did not achieve the qualifying "A" standard, which was set at four and a half metres.