A graduate of Canton Central Catholic High School, Margaret Peters is one of only a handful of women athletes that could have written their own ticket to college with an athletic talent paving the way for a college education.
She earned 11 varsity letters as a scholastic standout, scoring 1,123 career points in basketball which is still the high water mark for the Crusader program today. The 1981 State Class "AA" runners-up, she helped CCHS to a 69-23 mark during her foul' years of varsity play, the team posting a 62-11 mark her final three seasons of school.
As if her accomplishments on the hardwood weren't enough, her track and field prowess made her cage play seemed like it should take a back seat. She was the state long jump champion as a sophomore, earning runner-up honors as a senior while missing the event at the state level as a junior due to an injury. She qualified for the state in the 400M run all four years in high school. earning state runner-up laurels once while placing fifth in the 200M dash and qualifying twice in the 100-yard dash as well.
She chose to further her academic/athletic careers at Youngstown State University, being recruited by then Head Coach Joyce Ramsey for whom she played as a freshman. She scored 212 points as a freshman (an average of 9.6 per game), dishing out 93 assists and hauling in 93 caroms, an average of 4.2 per outing.
As a sophomore, she averaged 12.1 points while dishing out 140 assists, hooping a career high 328 points.
Her junior year she scored 265 markers, an average of 11.0 per game while dishing out a career high 151 assists and as a senior, scored 279 points (an average of 10.3 per outing). grabbing 97 rebounds (an average of 3.6 per fray) and dishing out 149 assists.
When the horn had sounded on her stellar collegiate career (she played for the Penguins from 1981-82 to 1984-85, her first season she played for Joyce Ramsey, as a sophomore played for Jeff Cohen and then played for Head Coach Ed DiGregorio her final two seasons), she had hooped 1,084 points and that is still good enough to rank seventh on the all-time YSU scoring list while she remains one of just eight Guins to score 1,000+ points in a career.
Her 533 all-time assists places her second in that category (she is second only to Danielle Carson who dished out 573 from 1982-83 to 1985-86), having also registered 249 steals and 15 blocks in her collegiate career. She also had 407 rebounds in 100 total games played, an average of 4.12 per outing.
Upon graduation from YSU, she served as an assistant basketball and track and field coach while teaching Biology and Chemistry at her alma mater, Canton Central Catholic High School, moving to Massillon Jackson High School in 1987 where she teaches General Science and Life Science. She is also the head women's basketball coach (she has a 79-54 overall mark in six seasons there) and an assistant track and field coach where the team is 32-4 the last three seasons.
She is single and resides in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
