Heidi Peters

Heidi Peters wears number 11 and plays the position of attacker for the Canadian women’s sitting volleyball team.

In 2022, Peters and her teammates won the silver medal at the world championships Canada's best ever international result in the sport.

In February 2020 she helped Team Canada secure a spot for the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo by leading the team in scoring and winning gold at the World ParaVolley final Paralympic qualification tournament in Halifax. In Tokyo, Canada took fourth spot, a best ever result. 

Peters has been a member of the team since 2013. She attended the 2019 and 2015 Parapan Am Games, 2018 world championships, 2017 ParaVolley Pan Am Zonal Championship, 2016 Paralympic Games and 2016 Intercontinental Cup.

In 2015 at the Toronto Parapan Am Games, Canada won bronze earning a berth for the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio; the first time in history a Canadian sitting volleyball team qualified for the Paralympic Games. 

Peters has always been an avid volleyball player. As a teenager she played standing volleyball for Barrhead Composite High School in Barrhead, AB. In September of her grade 12 year Peters was diagnosed with bone cancer in her left leg. She missed her grade 12 year to undergo chemotherapy. Despite treatment the cancer refused to leave, ultimately leading to the amputation of her leg. 

During Peters’ recovery at the Edmonton Children’s Hospital, Jolan Wong (current sitting volleyball teammate) happened to be volunteering at the hospital. Just like Peters, Wong was a volleyball player who lost her leg to cancer at a young age. At the time, Wong was a member of the women’s sitting volleyball team. When Wong heard that Peters was also a volleyball player, she introduced herself and told Peters about the opportunity she could have playing sitting volleyball. One year later in 2013, Peters tried out and made the Canadian women’s sitting volleyball team. 

Along with volleyball Peters has a passion for photography and travel. She has a diploma in photographic technology from Northern Alberta Institute of Technology and a diploma in travel from Macewan University. She enjoys the challenge of truly capturing a person in an image and views photography as her main creative outlet. Her work can be found on her website at www.heidiamanda.com. 

In addition, Peters works at Transat Travel as a travel agent. She loves aiding people with their travel arrangements and has visited over 10 countries herself.

Peters is also currently working towards her Bachelor of Arts in psychology at Macewan University with the hopes of either doing her master’s in counselling or going to law school.