Marnie Peters

Marnie Peters (born in either 1970 or 1971) is a Canadian former wheelchair basketball player and accessibility consultant who won gold medals in each of the women's wheelchair basketball tournament at the 2000 Summer Paralympics and the 2002 Women's Wheelchair Basketball World Championship. She was also part of the Ottawa Shooters team that won the 1995 Canadian Wheelchair Basketball League National Championship and took gold at the women's wheelchair basketball competition at the 1999 Parapan American Games.

Personal background Peters was born in either 1970 or 1971 and comes from Grimsby, Ontario, close to Hamilton.

Career She had played in sports prior to her paralysis and was disinterested in learning about disabled sports because she was angry and had other tasks to do. She was selected to be an alternate for the Canada women's national wheelchair basketball squad at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, United States, and joined the national side two years later.

In Sydney, the Canadian team she played with won every group match as well as the semi-final to earn gold medal honors in the final. She continued playing for the Canada women's national squad for the 2001–2002 season, and she was part of the gold medal-winning side at the 2002 Women's Wheelchair Basketball World Championship that took place in Kitakyushu, Japan. Peters competed for the local basketball club Ottawa Jazz that forms part of the Ottawa Carleton Wheelchair Sports Association, and she volunteered with the Royal Tip-Off program aiding elementary and secondary school students get more aware and accepting of wheelchair users.

Peters has been president of the Accessibility Simplified disability access company for more than two decades. She is also executive officer of the non-profit Global Alliance on Accessible Technologies and Environments non-governmental organization that promotes accessibility of built and virtual environments. Peters broadcast the German documentary My Way to Olympia as part of NWT Disability Awareness Week in Yellowknife on June 10, 2015.