Travis Roy was a college ice hockey player for Boston University. In 1995, he was paralyzed from the neck down. He later created the Travis Roy Foundation, which gives grants to enhance the life of people with spinal cord injuries and for research. Roy died on October 29, 2014, at the age of 45 years.
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Travis Roy was a college ice hockey player for Boston University. In 1995, he was paralyzed from the neck down. He later created the Travis Roy Foundation, which gives grants to enhance the life of people with spinal cord injuries and for research. His autobiography, Eleven Seconds, was published in 1998. Roy died on October 29, 2014, at the age of 45 years from complications of a stroke. He was the only BU hockey player to have a number retired until his former coach, Jack Parker, was given the number in his honor in 2014. In 2016, Roy received an honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Boston University and Sports Illustrated writer E.
M. Swift wrote his autobiography, “Eleven Seconds,” about his life after his injury, focusing on the devastation and perseverance he exhibited after the injury. In the U.S. alone, there are approximately 250,000 people currently living with a spinal cord injury and 13,000 new injuries each year. 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 USD 2. 5 million to establish the Travis M. Roy Professorship in Rehabilitation Sciences.
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