Career
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. Kues was born in Einbeck in Lower Saxony on 8 November 1976. She matriculated from the Paul-Gerhardt-Schule Dassel in 1996.
That same year she had a riding accident in Ireland, which resulted in paralysis.
After rehab, she began studying psychology in Göttingen in 1998, and then devoted herself to her sport career. She graduated in 2007, and now works as a psychologist at the Black Gold Trauma Hospital Hamburg"s paraplegic centre.
Kues first played wheelchair basketball at the rehab clinic. She went on to play for ASC Göttingen, then with RBV Lüneburg, and finally with SV Hamburg.
She joined the national team, and participated in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, at which the German team came fourth.
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. In June 2014, Kues rejoined the senior women"s team for the 2014 Women"s World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto, Canada. 2005: Gold at European championship (Villeneuve d"Ascq, France).
