Height 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) Position Defence | Playing career Name Steve Arsenault | |
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Born 6 September 1988 (age 35)
Hamilton, ON, CAN ( 1988-09-06 ) Weight 167 lb (76 kg; 11 st 13 lb) | ||
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Stephen Arsenault (born 6 September 1988) is a Canadian ice sledge hockey player.
Arsenault was born in Hamilton, Ontario to Joe and Jill Arsenault. He has avascular necrosis of the femoral head.
He began his sledge hockey career in 2004 in Edmonton with the Paralympic Sports Association Dogs. He also played for the Edmonton Impact sledge hockey team. He took a hiatus from sledge hockey from 2007 to 2010, a timespan in which his mother died and his father was seriously injured in a workplace accident which resulted in amputation of a leg.
With the Canada men's national ice sledge hockey team, He won a gold medal at the IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships in 2011 and 2013, and a silver in 2012. He also competed in the Sochi 2014 Winter Paralympics with the Canadian national team, winning a bronze in the sledge hockey tournament.
He resides in Stony Plain, Alberta. He is also a personal trainer.