The women's national team were voted Team of the Year in disabled sports in 2008, and President Horst Köhler awarded them the Silver Laurel Leaf, Germany's highest German sports award.

After rehab, she began studying psychology in Göttingen in 1998, and then devoted herself to her sport career.

She graduated in 2007,[1] and now works as a psychologist at the BG Trauma Hospital Hamburg [de]'s paraplegic centre.

Her team won the European championship in 2005, 2007 and 2009, and a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing.

[2] The women's national team were voted Team of the Year in disabled sports in 2008, and President Horst Köhler awarded them the Silver Laurel Leaf, Germany's highest German sports award.