Taylor Chace
Taylor Chace (born May 9, 1986) is an American sledge hockey player. Chace is one of three children of Rick and Lisa Chace. He began playing ice hockey at age 5, and by age 16 was playing for the New Hampshire Junior Monarchs. During an October 2002 game, he was checked back-first into the boards. The impact broke the L1 vertebra in his lower back, resulting in an incomplete spinal cord injury and partial paralysis of his legs. While a student at the University of New Hampshire less than two years later, Chace was introduced to the sport of sled hockey through the school's Northeast Passage program. He was named to the U.S. national team in late 2005 and participated in the 2006 Winter Paralympics in Turin, Italy, where the team took a bronze medal. He helped win another bronze at the 2008 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships, and at the 2009 World Championships he assisted in the gold medal-winning goal in a match against Norway. Chace currently lives in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. He is a senior at the University of New Hampshire, majoring in sports studies and minoring in therapeutic recreation.
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| Birth date | May 09, 1986 |
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