The 21-year-old leaves Dunedin on Tuesday before the World University Games in South Korea early next month.
She will spend a week at a training camp in Brisbane, before flying to Gwangju on July 1, a couple of days before the games begin.
It will be the New Zealand champion's first major international event, but that has not stopped her aiming high.
''I definitely want a podium finish,'' she said.
''I feel like I've definitely got it in me to throw up around 55m, hopefully past 55m. I've trained pretty hard leading up to it.''
Peeters capped a memorable season by breaking her own national and Otago records at the IAAF World Challenge in Melbourne with a 55.14m throw.
That was comfortably more than the B standard (51.5m) and A standard (54.5m) qualifying distances for the university event.
She also defended her national title in Wellington in March, winning with a 53.25m throw, well clear of Stephanie Wrathall, of Auckland, who finished second with 48.97m.
Peeters, one of 30 New Zealanders competing in South Korea, won a raft of awards at the end of her most successful summer.
She was named Otago athlete of the year for the second straight year, and was named junior sportswomen of the year at the Otago sports awards last month.
She also won the Otago senior summer athlete of the year award and the Joe Gough Memorial Trophy for most points in the Otago track and field championships by a female athlete.
Peeters has little idea about the field she will be competing against next month, but believes that could work in her favour.
''I've only really competed against the Aussie girls before,'' she said.
''None of them are actually going. Most of the younger ones aren't going to it and then the old ones aren't at university, obviously.
''So, I'm sort of going in blind. But I'm quite happy about that. It means I don't put that extra pressure on myself like, `Oh, she threw such and such', that sort of thing.''
The physical education student has been braving the cold to train at the Caledonian Ground, but is looking forward to training and competing in a warmer climate.
Peeters managed to throw 53m on a 3degC day in Dunedin at the end of May, which she believes bodes well for South Korea.
''That was unheard of for me,'' she said.
''I don't perform that well in the cold, so all the work in the gym is starting to transfer to the field.''
While the World University Games start on July 3, Peeters will not begin competition until July 9, with finals scheduled three days later.
Peeters said she and coach Raylene Bates would reassess the plan for the rest of the year based on how things go in Korea.
Competing at the world track and field championships in Beijing in August was ''definitely out of the question'' due to the qualifying mark being close to 60m.
