Steve Arsenault
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6 September 1988 Hamilton, ON, CAN | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 167 lb (76 kg; 11 st 13 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Defence | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 2004–present | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Stephen Arsenault (born 6 September 1988) is a Canadian sledge hockey player.
Arsenault was born in Hamilton, Ontario to Joe and Jill Arsenault. He has avascular necrosis of the femoral head.[1]
He began his sledge hockey career in 2004 in Edmonton with the Paralympic Sports Association Dogs. He also played for the Edmonton Impact sledge hockey team. He took a hiatus from sledge hockey from 2007 to 2010, a timespan in which his mother died and his father was seriously injured in a workplace accident which resulted in amputation of a leg.[1][2]
With the Canada men's national ice sledge hockey team, He won a gold medal at the IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships in 2011 and 2013, and a silver in 2012.[1][3] He also competed in the Sochi 2014 Winter Paralympics with the Canadian national team, winning a bronze in the sledge hockey tournament.[4]
He resides in Stony Plain, Alberta.[1][5] He is also a personal trainer.[6]
References
- 1 2 3 4 http://www.paralympic.ca/steve-arsenault
- ↑ http://www.stonyplainreporter.com/2010/10/15/arsenault-skates-back-onto-team-canada
- ↑ http://www.sprucegroveexaminer.com/2013/09/20/arsenault-team-canada-start-season-with-four-nations-gold
- ↑ http://olympics.cbc.ca/news/article/article=hockey-canada-names-paralympic-sledge-hockey-team.html
- ↑ http://www.albertaprimetime.com/Stories.aspx?pd=6205
- ↑ http://www.sochi2014.com/en/paralympic/athlete-steve-arsenault