January 4, 2006
ESPN to air TRAVIS ROY FEATURE SUNDAY, JANUARY 8
Boston, MA – ESPN will air an extensive feature on Travis Roy on Sunday, January 8, 2006. The 12-minute segment will be shown during the late edition of SportsCenter, which airs from 10:30 PM - Midnight (ET), and will re-air throughout the day on Monday, January 9.
The segment, which was taped shortly after the 10th anniversary of Travis Roy’s 1995 accident, will focus on Roy’s life since that paralyzing accident, including his work as a motivational speaker and with the Travis Roy Foundation. Several recipients of Travis Roy Foundation individual grants were also interviewed for the ESPN segment.
TRAVIS ROY: Travis Roy, 30, gained national notoriety in 1995 after he was paralyzed from the shoulders down just 11 seconds into his first college hockey game for the defending national champion Boston University Terriers. Now a quadriplegic, he returned to BU less than one year after the accident and graduated with a degree in public relations in 2000. His autobiography Eleven Seconds, co-written with Sports Illustrated writer E.M. Swift, was published in 1998. The book is now in its sixth printing and was re-released this past fall with a new, updated chapter.
Actively involved in the activities of the Travis Roy Foundation, Roy resides in Boston and makes his living as a motivational speaker. In 2004, he added television commentator to his resume, making his debut as a college hockey analyst during WMTW-TV8’s coverage of the University of Maine Black Bears. In 2005, he worked as a color analyst during ESPNU's national coverage of the 2005 NCAA D-I college hockey playoffs in Worcester, MA. For more information on Travis Roy’s accomplishments and career as a motivational speaker, please visit www.travisroy.com.
TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION: The Travis Roy Foundation was established in 1997 to aid spinal cord injury survivors in financial need 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. Since 1997 the Travis Roy Foundation has distributed more than $1.3 million in individual grants and to research projects and rehabilitation institutions across North America. 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. For more information about the Travis Roy Foundation, please visit us online at www.travisroyfoundation.org.
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