Career
Sweeney"s passion for hockey began at an early age, as he played ice hockey during middle school & competed in his high school team A graduate Ironwood High School"s class of 2005, he shortly enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. On September 2009, Sergeant Sweeney was deployed to Afghanistan for his second deployment as a scout sniper to Nowzad, Afghanistan.
On October 28, 2009, while on patrol duty, Sergeant
Sweeney was injured when he stepped on an IED. The blast severed both his legs & caused injury to his left hand & arm. He had to wait 2 hours to be evacuated.
In 2014, Sweeney joined Paralympic sledge hockey team and lost 2-1 to the Russians. He received a new specially adapted home from the Homes Foreign Our Troops non-profit group in November 2014.
