picard's maiden appearance on the canadian team came as a seventeen-year-old teen at the 2008 world youth championships in antalya, turkey, where she finished a credible eighteenth in the individual recurve. following two more editions of the same tournament under the youth level in 2009 and 2011 respectively, picard seized her opportunity to compete as a member of canada's senior national team for the first timeat the 2013 world championships, which were held in the same location as her youth debut.