“A pretty cool idea’: Documentary series to follow Straschnitzki’s basketball dreams
CALGARY — Former Humboldt Bronco hockey player Ryan Straschnitzki has an entourage these days — complete with cameras and microphones — now that he’s changed his path to the Paralympics from the ice to the hardwood.
“Prairie Cat Productions reached out and mentioned this idea of kind of filming me in my wheelchair basketball career and possibly presenting it to a TV network,” Straschnitzki said in an interview.
“I thought it was a pretty cool idea and I like doing cool things.”
The 25-year-old from Airdrie, Alta., was paralyzed from the chest down in 2018 when a semi-trailer ran a stop sign and barrelled into the path of the Humboldt Broncos’ bus in rural Saskatchewan.