Taylor Chace is an American

United States

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 sledge hockey

Sledge hockey

Sledge hockey is a sport that was designed to allow participants who have a physical disability to play the game of ice hockey. Ice sledge hockey was invented in the early 1960s in Stockholm, Sweden at a rehabilitation center...

 player.

Chace is one of three children of Rick and Lisa Chace. He began playing ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 at age 5, and by age 16 was playing for the New Hampshire Junior Monarchs.
During an October 2002 game, he was checked

Checking (ice hockey)

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 back-first into the boards. The impact broke the L1 vertebra

Lumbar vertebrae

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 in his lower back, resulting in an incomplete spinal cord injury

Spinal cord injury

A spinal cord injury refers to any injury to the spinal cord that is caused by trauma instead of disease. Depending on where the spinal cord and nerve roots are damaged, the symptoms can vary widely, from pain to paralysis to incontinence...

 and partial paralysis of his legs.

While a student at the University of New Hampshire

University of New Hampshire

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 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

2006 Winter Paralympics

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 in Turin

Turin

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, Italy

Italy

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, where the team took a bronze medal. He helped win another bronze at the 2008 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships

2008 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships

The 4th IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships was held between March 29, 2008 and April 5, 2008 in Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA. The venue were the New England Sports Center...

, and at the 2009 World Championships

2009 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships

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 he assisted in the gold medal-winning goal in a match against Norway

Norway

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.

Chace currently lives in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire

Hampton Falls, New Hampshire

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. He is a senior at the University of New Hampshire, majoring in sports studies and minoring in therapeutic recreation.