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KristenCA’RsINGcSoAFEmLY eback: a return to sport

Skating down the ice with her eyes following in the footsteps of her uncle Dave Cameron,
itsrPaaAinpTeiIcdEtuoNrneTtohEfeXcpoPunEcckeR,nIKtErrNaitsiCtoeEnn Cameron head coach of the Ottawa Senators. While studying
as she for a Master’s degree at Mercyhurst University in
and her teammates try to take home a Erie, Pennsylvania, she coached women’s hockey and
victory for Team P.E.I. competed in triathlons in her spare time.
One evening on her way home from a bike ride down
It’s one of many pThEoAtoMs KErNistGenAhGaEs fMroEmNhTer hockey a road she had just discovered, a drunk driver hit her.
days. The impact broke her neck.
Kristen arrived at Toronto Rehab’s Lyndhurst Centre
Now, paralyzed from the collarbone down with for spinal cord rehabilitation.
limited mobility in her arms and wrists, Kristen is “It wasn’t until the first six or seven months of being at
using her athletic skill to tackle a new sport. Lyndhurst that I started to realize this is going to be a
more permanent thing,” she recalls.
“My life revolvedIaTroTuRnAdNhoScFkOeyR. IMgrAeTwIuOpNin a
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hockey family, went to school for hockey and decided
to coach for my career,” Kristen says.

Kristen was working towards her career goal,

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After being struck by a drunk driver, Kristen Cameron’s life changed
forever. The avid hockey player had to pursue a different sport:
Wheelchair Rugby. (Video: UHN YouTube)

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