Travis Roy

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Travis Roy Biography

After his collegiate ice hockey career ended with an accident that left him quadriplegic, he co-wrote an autobiography titled Eleven Seconds and launched The Travis Roy Foundation to fund medical research and to assist fellow survivors of spinal cord injuries.

After playing on the ice hockey teams at North Yarmouth Academy and Tabor Academy, he matriculated at Boston University on an ice hockey scholarship. Tragically, he was injured during his very first game with the university’s men’s team.

In the late 1990s, North Yarmouth Academy named its ice hockey arena in Roy’s honor.

Born to Lee and Brenda Roy, he spent his early years in Augusta and Yarmouth, Maine.

Roy and Brooke Ellison – a graduate of Harvard University and the subject of the TV movie The Brooke Ellison Story – both achieved great things despite being quadriplegic as the result of early accidents.

Travis Matthew Roy (born April 17, 1975 in Augusta, Maine, USA) is a philanthropist and former American college ice hockey player.

On October 20, 1995 – just eleven seconds into his first-ever shift for Boston University men’s ice hockey team – a 20-year-old Roy slid head-first into the boards after University of North Dakota player Mitch Vig avoided Roy’s check. The awkward impact with the boards resulted in Roy’s cracking his fourth and fifth vertebra and leaving him a quadriplegic. ,

Since 1997 the Travis Roy Foundation has distributed more than $9 million in individual grants and to research projects and rehabilitation institutions. The individual grant funds have been used to modify vans and to purchase wheelchairs, computers, ramps, shower chairs, and other adaptive equipment to help paraplegics and quadriplegics live their lives.

In 1997, Roy started a foundation called “The Travis Roy Foundation” to help spinal cord injury survivors and to fund research into a cure. Inspired by Travis’ own story, the lifeblood of the Travis Roy Foundation has been the generosity of individuals, corporations and foundations across North America. This generosity has made an immediate impact on the lives of many individuals.

Roy and Sports Illustrated writer E.M. Swift wrote his autobiography, Eleven Seconds, in 1998.

In 1998, North Yarmouth Academy’s ice arena was named the “Travis Roy Arena” in his honor. His jersey number, 00, was retired by NYA as well. It hangs in the rafters alongside Eric Weinrich’s #7 — the only numbers retired by NYA.

In October 1999, Roy’s #24 was retired, and raised to the rafters of Boston University’s Walter Brown Arena, now present in BU’s Agganis Arena. Roy was the only BU hockey player to have been honored with a retired number until his former coach, Jack Parker was given the honor in 2014.

Roy attended Yarmouth High School as a freshman, then transferred to nearby North Yarmouth Academy (NYA) in order to pursue an athletic scholarship. Roy transferred again and graduated from Tabor Academy and received an ice hockey scholarship to Boston University (College of Communications, Class of 2000)

In October 2015, Sargent College Dean Christopher Dean announced, at a fundraiser for the foundation, that a group of anonymous donors gave a gift of $2.5 million gift to establish the Travis M. Roy Professorship in Rehabilitation Sciences at Sargent and provide the foundation with office space on campus and a $50,000 annual stipend towards staffing for the next 10 years.

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