A hockey accident as a teenager left him paralyzed, but hasn’t stopped Olivier from living life and giving back
The stories of the Sudbury Minor Hockey Association and Andrew Olivier will forever be interlinked — that is a given.
“We were on the penalty kill and I ripped down the ice and lost my footing by the goal line,” said Olivier. “The damage was done to my spinal cord and once that happens, neurologically, it doesn’t come back.” “There is a silver lining with everything,” said Oliver, who is now a financial professional, a licensed mortgage broker, a part-time teacher at Cambrian College and a volunteer on more boards than you can shake a stick at. “I am healthy now, didn’t really skip a beat, went to school and all of those things.”
This is more than just life giving you lemons and finding a way to make lemonade. Speaking analogously, Olivier has created the best damn lemonade the world has ever seen. “It was an awesome experience and I met some really great people — and it helped me put the word out in the community that I was there to help,” he said.
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