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Travis Roy Foundation News
February 20, 2012
Travis Roy A Role Model For Beanpot Participants
By Chris Marino, Assoc. Sports Editor As the Boston College men’s hockey team torched past the Northeastern Huskies, I couldn’t help but think about the words of one man. This former hockey player became a solid force throughout the New England prep school hockey circuit. He was a dedicated, hardworking…
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February 15, 2012
Travis Roy Cup welcomes home Tabor alumnus
Photo by: Jennifer Heshion Tabor Seawolves and the St. Sebastian Arrows faced off in the 16th annual Travis Roy Cup. Marion — Travis Roy still has a soft spot for Tabor Academy. A former Seawolf, Roy was the man of the hour February 4 for the 16th annual Travis…
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February 9, 2012
TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION AWARDS $150,000 PER YEAR RESEARCH GRANT TO MGM-HARVARD SCIENTIST DR. JEFFREY MACKLIS
Boston, MA (February 9, 2012) – Travis Roy, Founder of the Travis Roy Foundation (TRF), announced earlier this month the distribution of a $150,000 research grant, each year for the next three years, to Dr. Jeffrey Macklis, Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Center for Nervous System Repair…
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February 7, 2012
The Hill School Class of 2013 sponsors Broomball Tournament to benefit the Travis Roy Foundation
The Hill School Class of 2013 sponsored a Broomball tournament on Friday, January 27, 2012 in support of the Travis Roy Foundation. The event proved to be a fun night for Hill students and raised more than $2,000 for the Foundation. View More Photos Broomball is played on the ice…
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January 25, 2012
Travis Roy scores with Marblehead Middle Schoolers
By Kris Olson / kolson@wickedlocal.com Marblehead Reporter January 25, 2012 (Marblehead) — The success of a speech given by paralyzed former hockey star Travis Roy Tuesday at the Marblehead Veterans Middle School could be measured in sound — or, rather, the lack thereof. The entire seventh-and-eighth-grade student body hung spellbound…
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January 13, 2012
Questions with Bob Sansevere: Paralyzed hockey player Travis Roy knows what’s ahead for Jack Jablonski
Eleven seconds into his first shift as a hockey player at Boston University, Travis Roy slammed into the boards and fractured his fourth and fifth cervical vertebrae. He was paralyzed from the neck down. He was 20 years old. Roy has been a quadriplegic since that October night in 1995….
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January 12, 2012
Jack Jablonski, Travis Roy Persevere Through Life-Changing Injuries
By: Peter Owen (January 12, 2012) – Everyone has something in their life that they consider a “passion.” For some, it’s what they do for a living, for others, it’s an activity such as cooking or writing. For many, that passion is sport. Sport taps into the basic human instinct…
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January 3, 2012
TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION DISTRIBUTES 30 INDIVIDUAL GRANTS IN THE 4th QUARTER
Boston, MA (December 27, 2011) – The Travis Roy Foundation (TRF) is pleased to announce the awarding of $75,000 of adaptive equipment grants to 30 spinal cord injury survivors across the United States. The TRF distributes grants on a quarterly basis to SCI survivors in financial need and to research…
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December 20, 2011
Travis Roy Foundation Annual Appeal Receives $50,000 Matching Challenge
Boston (December 20, 2011) A generous donor has issued a $50,000 matching challenge for all donations made to the Travis Roy Foundation’s Annual Appeal, between December 12th and December 31st of this year. “The current economy has made raising money difficult” said Travis Roy, founder of the TRF. “This $50,000…
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November 29, 2011
Rebuilding the brain’s circuitry
Healthy neurons can integrate into diseased areas By David Cameron Harvard Medical School Communications Thursday, November 24, 2011 Neuron transplants have repaired brain circuitry and substantially normalized function in mice with a brain disorder, an advance indicating that key areas of the mammalian brain are more reparable than was widely…
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