Travis Roy is a retired American college ice hockey player. Roy attended Yarmouth High School as a freshman, then transferred to nearby North Yarmouth Academy in order to pursue an athletic scholarship. Roy transferred again and graduated from Tabor Academy and received an ice hockey scholarship to Boston University. 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 cracking his fourth and fifth vertebra and leaving him a quadriplegic. Since the accident, he has regained movement in his right arm. Roy and Sports Illustrated writer E.M. Swift wrote his autobiography, Eleven Seconds. He set up a foundation to campaign for spinal cord injury research. In 1998, NYA's ice arena was named the "Travis Roy Arena" in his honor and his number retired. At Yarmouth High School he wore 00 and at NYA he wore 00. His NYA #00 hangs in the rafters alongside Eric Weinrich's #7 - the only numbers retired by NYA. 

April 17th, 1975 in   /  Died:   Oct 29th, 2020