Before her accident, Badenhorst was an accomplished athlete who had won provincial
colours in
high jump and
modern dance. Australian Paralympic snowboarding coach Peter Higgins identified Badenhorst as a likely snowboarder after the London Games, and she commenced training in this sport. In taking up snowboarding, she needed a new custom-made leg. Badenhorst said: "I need a special leg that has to be engineered differently to accommodate the different pressures and angles of snowboarding". In the lead-up to the 2014 Sochi Games, Badenhorst competed and trained in the
Netherlands,
Austria, and the
United States. In February 2015, at the IPC Para-Snowboard World Championships in
La Molina,
Spain, she won a silver medal in the Women's SB-LL2. She competed with one arm in a cast due to a fracture caused in a training accident a week before the Championships. At the 2017 IPC Para-Snowboard World Championships in
Big White City, she won bronze medals in the Women's Snowboard Cross Banked Slalom and Women's Snow Board Cross Lower limb 2 impairment. Badenhorst was selected on the Australian team for
2018 Winter Paralympics but was injured in a training run just prior to the day of competition and was declared medically unfit to compete. She was also the Australian flag bearer at the Opening Ceremony. Badenhorst says that her career highlight is being Australia's first, and to date only, female representative in Para-snowboard. In addition to this, Joany states that the greatest moment in her career was winning the 2016/17 IPC World Cup Crystal Globe in Snowboard Cross. ==Recognition==