James Connelly
Since 2003, Jimmy Connelly has been a mainstay on the U.S. sled hockey scene starting out on the junior national team. In 2005, he was called up to the senior national team and scored the game-winning shootout goal against Canada in the championship game of the USA Cup. In that same year he also set the single-season record for points in the Atlantic Sled Hockey League by notching 100 points (75-25) in just 16 games. At the 2006 Paralympic Winter Games in Torino Italy, as the youngest player on the squad, Connelly and the U.S. team won a bronze medal.
James Connelly, a defenseman, displayed a propensity to jump into the rush at the 2008 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships, scoring three goals in six games. In 2009 he help his team capture gold at the World Championships and again in 2010 at the Japan Para Ice Sledge Hockey Championships.
Connelly is currently attending Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and pursuing a degree in criminal justice.
Major Achievements:
- 2010: Gold medal – Paralympic Winter Games,
- 2010: Gold medal - 2010 Japan Para Ice Sledge Hockey Championships
- 2009: Paralympic team of the year
- 2009: Gold Medal - World Championships, Ostrava, Czech Republic
- 2008: Bronze medal - IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships, Marlborough, Mass.
- 2006: Bronze medal - Paralympic Winter Games, Torino, Italy
- 2005: Named to U.S. Paralympics Sled Hockey National Team
- 2004-2005: Scored 68 goals in 13 games for the Vineland Sled Stars of the Atlantic Sled Hockey League
