Travis Roy

Travis Roy ( born April 17, 1975 in Yarmouth, Maine ) is an American former college ice hockey player. In his first game for the Boston University he was injured so badly that he has since been paralyzed from the neck down after eleven seconds on the ice.

Career

Roy began with the ice already running at the age of 20 months and graduated in the Taber University. He was subsequently in the summer of 1995, a hockey scholarship to Boston University. On 20 October 1995 his first game for the University team, Roy injured on his first change after just eleven seconds on the ice hard. Once an opponent had evaded a body check by Roy, bounced this off with his head in the game field boundary. He broke the fourth (C4 ) and fifth (C5) cervical vertebrae, which he has since become a paraplegic from the neck down. His jersey with the number 24 is not assigned to other players since the accident.

As a result, Roy sat only a year after his injury, his college education continues, which he successfully completed in 2000. In addition, in the 1997/98 season of Americans worked in spite of his disability as an assistant coach at Boston University and founded in the same year, the Travis Roy Foundation, which supports people with accidental spinal cord injury. With the support of Sports Illustrated writer EM Swift wrote in 1998 his autobiography " Eleven Seconds: A Story of Tragedy, Courage & Triumph".

Today Roy holds motivational speeches and sometimes works as a co- commentator for college hockey broadcasts the TV channel ESPN.

Career Stats

( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )