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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Travis Roy speaks on 'Defying the Odds: Perseveranc
 e and Rehabilitation after Spinal Cord Injury'\nEvent Url: http://www.arts
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 rseverance_and_Rehabilitation_after_Spinal_Cord_Injury\nEvent Date Begin: 
 2012-04-04\nEvent Date End: 2012-04-04\n\nTravis Roy is a motivational spe
 aker\, author\, and activist for individuals living with spinal cord injur
 ies. In the fall of 1995\, at the age of twenty\, Roy entered his first co
 llegiate hockey game at Boston University. Eleven seconds into his first s
 hift\, his life changed forever as he crashed into the boards and cracked 
 his fourth and fifth cervical vertebra\, paralyzing him from the neck down
 .  Less than a year after his accident Roy returned to Boston University t
 o complete  a degree in public relations from BU's College of Communicatio
 n. In 1997\, he collaborated with Sports Illustrated's E.M. Swift to pen h
 is autobiography Eleven Seconds chronicling his accident\, rehabilitation\
 , and perseverance through personal tragedy.  All are welcome to his talk\
 , 'Defying the Odds: Perseverance and Rehabilitation after Spinal Cord Inj
 ury'.  There will be a reception following the lecture in the Setterberg L
 ounge\, 2nd floor.\n\nStart time: 4pm
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SUMMARY:Travis Roy speaks on 'Defying the Odds: Perseverance and Rehabilita
 tion after Spinal Cord Injury'
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