Steve Arsenault Explained

Steve Arsenault
Birth Date:1988 9, mf=y
Birth Place:Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Height Ft:5
Height In:7
Weight Lb:167
Position:Defence
Career Start:2004
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Stephen Arsenault (born September 6, 1988) is a Canadian ice sledge hockey player.

Arsenault was born in Hamilton, Ontario to Joe and Jill Arsenault. He has avascular necrosis of the femoral head.Web site: Steve Arsenault . paralympic.ca . 2014-03-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140315041646/http://paralympic.ca/steve-arsenault . 2014-03-15 . dead.

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]

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, 2013, 2017 and a silver in 2012.[2] He also competed in the Sochi 2014 Winter Paralympics with the Canadian national team, winning a bronze in the sledge hockey tournament.[3]

He is currently General Manager and Head Coach of the Gibbons Pioneers Junior A team. He resides in Spruce Grove, Alberta.[4] He is no longer a personal trainer.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Arsenault skates back onto Team Canada . stonyplainreporter.com . 2014-03-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180330143538/http://www.stonyplainreporter.com/2010/10/15/arsenault-skates-back-onto-team-canada . 2018-03-30 . dead.
  2. Web site: Arsenault, Team Canada start season with Four Nations gold . sprucegroveexaminer.com . 2014-03-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304025331/http://www.sprucegroveexaminer.com/2013/09/20/arsenault-team-canada-start-season-with-four-nations-gold . 2016-03-04 . live.
  3. Web site: Hockey Canada names Paralympic sledge hockey team . olympics.cbc.ca . 2014-03-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140301151537/http://olympics.cbc.ca/news/article/article=hockey-canada-names-paralympic-sledge-hockey-team.html . 2014-03-01 . dead.
  4. Web site: Steve Arsenault : sledge hockey star . albertaprimetime.com . 2014-03-15 . https://archive.today/20140315235131/http://www.albertaprimetime.com/Stories.aspx?pd=6205 . 2014-03-15 . dead.
  5. Web site: Steve Arsenault . sochi2014.com . 2014-03-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140316080343/http://www.sochi2014.com/en/paralympic/athlete-steve-arsenault . 2014-03-16 . dead.