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| Event: |
Sledge Hockey |
| Position: |
Winger / Ailier |
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N/A |
| Born: |
22/03/1984 |
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Summerside, PEI |
| Residence: |
Oakville/Guelph, ON |
| Coach: |
Jeff Snyder |
| Club: |
Kitchener |
| Spoken Language(s): |
English |
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| Career Highlights: |
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World Championships, Championnats du monde, Salt Lake City, USA/E-U |
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| Biography: |
| Billy Bridges is definitely a player to look out for in the upcoming Paralympics in Torino. A gifted athlete and major scorer, he will proudly represent the Canadian team as center. Now a six year national team veteran, Billy is a top player in the world, one of the key Canadian players and a major scoring threat. Billy won the 2005 Team MVP award and will help lead team Canada to Gold in Torino.
Living with the effects of spina bifida, his limited mobility means he uses crutches. His disability hasn’t stopped him from gaining international notoriety as a powerful hockey player or from obtaining a sponsorship deal in skateboarding.
The love of sports is a family affair, his father Charles is Billy’s biggest role model, playing and coaching in softball and sledge hockey. Born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Billy eventually moved to Guelph with his mother Mary. It was there that Billy started playing sledge in 1996 with the Kitchener Sidewinders organization at 12 years old and made Team Canada at 14. He holds the record for being the youngest player ever to be selected to Canada’s National Sledge Hockey Team. He currently lives in Oakville, Ontario with his fiancé and has many brothers and sisters to cheer him on.
Billy was a recipient of the Queen’s Jubilee Medal in 2002 and his accomplishments go well beyond sledge hockey. His achievements in skateboarding and in wheelchair basket-ball do not prevent him from pursuing his studies as full-time student and his interest in auto-body repair. To top it all off, he is also a musician, and has founded a disc company to produce his first recording.
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