In winning the overall award for the second consecutive year, Peeters (20), a third-year physical education student, also won the Otago senior summer athlete of the year award and the Joe Gough Memorial for most points in the Otago track and field championships by a female athlete.
All three trophies serve as just recognition for an athlete who is maturing into a top-flight javelin thrower after breaking her own New Zealand and Otago records at the recent IAAF World Challenge in Melbourne with a throw of 55.14m.
Locally, Peeters has been dominant over the recent track and field season, but on the international stage in recent months her javelin results have been top shelf as she competed against the best in the business, such as Commonwealth Games gold medallist Kim Mickle (Australia).
She finished fifth in the senior women's competition at the Australian Championships, fifth in the senior women at the IAAF World Challenge in Melbourne and fourth at the Adelaide IAAF Grand Prix meeting.
Her immediate objective is a top result at the World University Games in South Korea at the beginning of July, where she is targeting a podium finish.
But while world championship prospects loom on the horizon, Peeters is keen to keep a level head and assess her chances after the World University Games.
''The standards are quite high,'' she said of the qualifying mark of 60m for the world championships.
''At the moment I'm just focusing on one thing at a time and just ticking off all the goals along the way. I'm only young and have a few years to build into things like that.''
A double celebration for Peeters last night was her coach, Raylene Bates, winning the Otago coach of the year award.
The awards evening finished by honouring Ron Cain, who has been involved with the sport for 70 years, 65 of which have in some way been in an administrative role.
Cain, who was awarded a QSM for his services to athletics in 2013, has decided to call it a day as meeting manager of the summer track and field season, a role he first took up in 1986. His services, both locally and nationally, to the sport have seen him awarded life membership of the Caversham Harrier and Athletic Club, Athletics Otago and Athletics New Zealand.
