Kerrie Leonard will make her second appearance at a Paralympic Games in Paris this summer. Kerrie took up archery seriously after meeting her coach, two-time Olympic archer Jim Conroy who is also from Meath. She first competed for Ireland in 2012, took a break and returned to the sport in 2014. She finished 9th at the World Championships in 2015 and won silver at the 2016 European Championships when she came very close to qualifying for the Rio Paralympic Games. With no European Championships possible for Tokyo it was amalgamated into a Paralympic Qualifier. At this competition she finished 5th in the World qualifier and 6th in the European Qualifier which earner her a bipartite slot for Tokyo. She finished 9th overall at the Tokyo Games.

Kerrie has a Degree in Equine Business from NUI Maynooth and a masters in Marketing from UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School. Kerrie is a wheelchair user since being paralysed from the waist down after a fall from a tractor in 1997 when she was 6. From March to October she trains outdoors at home on a tarmac driveway, but she also has a simulator that she can use to train indoors.

Kerrie is from a farming background and a safety advocate for farm safety. She studied Equine Business in Maynooth University; she then went on to complete a Marketing Masters in UCD in 2019.