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 |
Show-Medals: | yes |
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]