Christy Gardner

Christy Gardner, from Lewiston, Maine, is an American athlete in women's ice sledge hockey and a member of the United States women's national ice sledge hockey team. A multi-sport athlete at Edward Little High School in Auburn, she played basketball, field hockey, soccer and track and field, and earned a scholarship to LIU Post for field hockey and track before switching to lacrosse. After college she served as a Sergeant in the United States Army Military Police and was medically retired in December 2007 following an injury in 2006. She helped the United States win gold at the 2014 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey Women's International Cup, won the shot put and discus throw at the US Paralympic Trials for the 2016 Rio Paralympics, and was named the 2013 USA Hockey Disabled Athlete of the Year.