Foxborough Native To Compete At Paralympic Winter Games

FOXBOROUGH, MA — A Foxborough resident will ski for the U.S. Paralympic team in PyeongChang.

Connor Hogan was recently named to the U.S. 23-person alpine skiing team. The games are the first for the athlete, who has been a competitive skier for the past few years.

Horan was diagnosed with cerebral palsy when he was 18 months old. The condition, caused by an in utero stroke, affected the frontal lobe of his brain and resulted in him not having a full range of motion on the right side of his body. That did not stop Hogan from hitting the slopes for the first time when he was 5 years old and entering his first race at 7 years old.

Hogan enters the games with a pair of first place finishes in Giant Slalom at WPAS Winter Park and Super G at WPAS Park City. He was named to the U.S. Paralympics Alpine Skiing Team for the 2015 World Championships, according to his website.

The U.S. will begin competition at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre with the men’s and women’s downhill on March 10 and finish with women’s slalom on March 18, according to the USOC.

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