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 Congratulations to Steven Cash,  Paralympic SportsMan of the Year
Watch for him in the NEWS on KMOX Channel 5
 Sunday, February 28 at 10:00 p.m.
Interviewed by Mike Bush

 
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 WATCH CASH'S STORY ON NEWSCHANNEL 5 SUNDAY EVENING AT 10 PM!
 
Paralympic SportsMan of the Year Visited Hometown Before Heading to Vancouver
 
Steve Cash, the U.S. National Sled Hockey Team goalie, will be competing in the winter Paralympics in Vancouver, Canada March 13 - 21.  This will be Cash's second time competing with the U.S. National Sled Hockey Team in the Paralympics.
 
20 year-old Cash, from Overland, MO, was introduced to sled hockey in 2005 through local non-profit organization Disabled Athlete Sports Association (DASA) Junior Blues Sled Hockey Program.  After earning his place on the U.S. National Sled Hockey Team, Cash competed in the 2006 Paralympic Winter  games in Torino, Italy.  The team took home a bronze medal that year.
 
Since then, Cash and his teammates captured the first-ever International Paralympic Committee Ice Sledge Hockey World Championship last May; and Team USA was named the USOC Paralympic Team of the Year, while Cash was named the USOC Paralympic SportsMan of the Year.
 
Cash is currently a student at the University of Missouri - St. Louis.  Diagnosed with osterosarcoma (bone cancer) of the right knee in 1992, Cash underwent amputation surgery at the age of three.  He has since become an inspiration for athletes everywhere.

 

 

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