Marine double amputee Afghanistan veteran to compete in sled dog race

Two Grand Rapids Sled Dogs aim for Paralympic team
By Special to The Sentinel
The Holland Sentinel
Posted Jul 19, 2013

Grand Rapids
Two members of the Grand Rapids Sled Wings sled hockey team are among 61 select athletes from across the country who have been invited to try out this weekend for the U.S. Paralympic Sled Hockey Team that will compete at the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.

Defenseman Tyler Anderson of Jenison (left) and forward Robert Thrailkill Jr. of Grand Haven will participate in tryouts today and Saturday at the Northtown Center at Amherst in suburban Buffalo, N.Y.

Formerly a lance corporal and combat engineer in the U.S. Marine Corps, Thrailkill only began playing for the Sled Wings’ adult team in December 2012. After losing both legs in an explosion in Afghanistan on October 26, 2010, the Pentwater native spent the next 25 months recovering at Walter Reed Hospital in Bethesda, Md.
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