Name: Travis Dodson

Position: Forward

Sport: Sled Hockey

Height: 6-4

DOB: 10/14/1985

Birthplace: Silver City, N.M.

Hometown: Deming, N.M.

High School: Deming High School (Deming, N.M.) ‘04

College: University of Illinois-Champaign, Nutrition ‘15

Team/Club: Nashville Sled Preds

Paralympic Experience

• Three-time Paralympian (2014, 2018, 2022); two-time Paralympic medalist (2 golds)
• Paralympic Winter Games Beijing 2022, gold
• Paralympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018, gold
• Paralympic Winter Games Sochi 2014

World Championship Experience

• Most recent: 2021 – gold
• Years of participation: 2019, 2021
• Medals: 2 (2 golds)
• Gold – 2021; 2019

Personal: Son of Casey and Cheryl Dodson...Dodson is a retired Marine Corporal who was serving a tour in Iraq on Valentine’s Day 2007 when he was struck by a grenade tossed into the second-story room where he was staying...The blast took off Dodson’s left leg at the hip and right leg below the knee...For his service in combat, Dodson was awarded a Purple Heart...Dodson, while a student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, became involved in a variety of adaptive sports soon after his accident...He competed in wheelchair track through UI’s wheelchair athletics program, and he has completed multiple wheelchair marathons and half-marathons.

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