By TIM GOODWIN, Insider Staff, Concord Monitor
Published: Monday, July 14, 2014
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Eleven seconds. That’s all it took for Travis Roy’s life to change forever.
It was his first shift as a member of the Boston University men’s hockey team and as could be expected, Roy wanted to make his presence felt.
“I felt a tap on the back of my shoulder I had waited my whole life for,” Roy told a packed luncheon as the guest speaker at the 2nd annual Frank Monahan Foundation’s Fore the Kids Golf Classic at Concord Country Club yesterday.
As the puck slid into the corner, the 20-year-old freshman skated in to make a hit. But when North Dakota’s Mitch Vig moved to avoid the contact, Roy fell awkwardly into the boards.
“I was just skating there as fast as I could,” Roy said. “I didn’t hit as squarely as I hoped and my momentum took me head first into the boards.”
He immediately knew something was wrong, magnified when his father, Lee, made his way onto the ice.
“I said, ‘Dad, I’m in big trouble,’ ” Roy remembered.
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