Maureen Orchard began playing
basketball in the early 1960s. She was a coach from 1963 to 1975, and a
referee from 1965 until 1980. She was elected a member of the Basketball Manitoba's board of directors in 1963, and was its president from 1973 to 1981, and its treasurer for 24 years. Elected to the board of directors of
Basketball Canada in 1975, she served as director of the Canadian national teams from 1977 to 1981. In addition, she was a member of the board of the Manitoba Sports Federation for fourteen years and the Manitoba Games Council for three years. During the
1999 Pan American Games in
Winnipeg, Manitoba, she was director of basketball. She was inducted into the Manitoba Basketball Hall of Fame in the builder category in 2015. In 2002, she was elected president of the
International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF), a position she held for twelve years. She also established age-specific world championships. The first
IWBF U23 World Wheelchair Basketball Championship for men was hosted in
Toronto, Ontario, in 1997, followed by the
2011 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in
St Catharines, Ontario, in 2011. She was inducted into the
Canadian Paralympic Committee Hall of Fame as a builder on 7 April 2017. She retired as secretary general in September 2018, and accepted the title of honorary secretary general. ==Notes==