just made history for their schl
and all of Central Ohio this weekend.
The team was the 1st to take home a state
championship title as a hockey ,
but it's the story that got them
there that you just have to hea.
Here's 10 TV's Adam king.
It's the countdown to a timeless scene,
a lifelong memory made in a matter of
seconds, helmets flying and cheers filling
the rink. This is a celebration on ICE
that seemed, at times, impossib.
Brendan Garrett grew up rooting
for the Jackets on that ice.
I just loved the team, a love fr
hockey, built on trips to jackes
games with his dad and Grandpa.
I just loved the experience that
they do for their games. But
a trip around the rink on a Zamboni was
the closest Brendan could get to the ice
when he was a probably a year
and a half to two years old.
When we started to recognize that his
walking was a little bit differ,
I carried him to one of the
very first Blue Jackets.
Can go into because it was cold,
his legs wouldn't move and I.
Carried him all the way in the ,
all about the pack back out the parking lot.
After many tests
and multiple doctors, Brendan ws
diagnosed with cerebral palsy.
The first goal to get
Brendan walking on his own.
We found the surgery,
the surgeon in Saint Louis,
and it was scary to make that decision.
It was it was a lot newer surgery back then.
But you know, like I we talked,
we said we we're I'm not going
to be able to look him in the
eye at 18 and tell him that I we
didn't try everything we could.
The surgery was a success.
Brendan walked on his own,
and it was then that he made a
promise to himself to not let hs
cerebral palsy get in the way.
I just say. If you just
give up, it's not gonna.
They're going to help you.
But if you just push
yourself over the limit,
it's going to change.
Change who I am.
From riding a bike to
Taekwondo and basketball.
There's nothing Brendan won't t.
And that's how he ended up back at the ice,
wanting to skate for himself.
I just think that. Anyone I cou,
I could go out and try. I don't think
there's anything that could sto.
Beat the enforcer,
as Brendan is known in sled hoc.
Never afraid to go after the pu,
it's there, finally playing the game.
He always loved that Brendan
met his future teammates,
the Olentangy Liberty ice hockey team.
They asked him if he would
like to be the team manager.
He's a he's a liberty hockey teammate.
He's part of this program.
He's he's part of the brotherho.
We we love having him,
and he's a he's the soul of this team.
He found his perfect
home with liberty hockey.
Always doing whatever he can to
help the Patriots, his brothers,
always with their arms around h.
They're a family.
Then they just, they care about
me and they just really liked.
Enjoy me having me around.
If you show up at a liberty prae
though and ask for Brandon,
he'll be hard to find because
for the Patriots, as the back of
the helmet says, he's be money.
They hand me a gift and they
said open it and I opened it
and they said I look surprised.
They got me a chain.
I was like they told me that wer
it at the games for good luck ad
at the end of all the Games I ge
out to a person that did good.
And the B money chain was born.
When you see the Ben Shilo
Liberty hockey game,
you'll find be money all suited
up and just like his teammates.
He puts on his helmet before Puk
drop and he may not be on the i,
but there is no doubt his
impact is felt every goal.
He he's always that smile on
the bench in the locker room
when it's tough fist bump,
he means a time to us.
It's filling a role that we
didn't know we needed. He
brings the positivity in any way he can,
whether it be helping in practie
or dancing in the locker room.
Always wearing that chain around his neck,
the most important piece of metal he owns.
Or it was until Sunday afternoo.
And that moment,
that snapshot of a team of champions,
a celebration that never seemed possible.
Brendan Garrett, now walking
on the ice he grew up watching,
once carried out of this arena be money,
now carrying a state trophy off the ice.