In addition to playing football and wrestling in high school, Travis has also accomplished the following:

• Weight lifting (at TKA). 
• See stats page for current lifting stats
• Article when Travis first broke 300 lbs:
  http://www.svcn.com/archives/sunnyvalesun/20071114/community2.shtml
• Baseball: (age 6 - 12)
• While playing on his older brother's minor league baseball team, the team went undefeated (20 & 0).  He played 1st base and pitcher.
• Was on every ``All Star" team for which he was eligible, playing 1st base/catcher.
• Other sports participation prior to high school)
• Soccer (6 - 11)
• Basketball (2 years)
• White Water Rafting Guide
• Travis ``guided" his first full white water raft trip in 2007 on the south fork of the American River (his father is a white water raft guide.)
• Other activities:
• Is an accomplished angler
• Very adept at skiing and snowboarding, having skied since he was able to walk.

If you are curious why Travis didn't play football before high school

Travis always wanted to play football.  When he was 12, he wanted to join a ``Pop Warner" football team.  His parents disagreed on it, so his Dad took Travis to a private 49er event where he could talk to then Coach Mariucci.  The Coach said that none of his kids were allowed to play tackle football until they went to high school and that he recommended the same to other parents.  His reasons (as best I recall):

• Younger children's bodies are still growing.  An injury at that stage could make the difference in a child's ability to play well in High School and College.
• Many, if not all, coaches in those leagues are volunteer parents.  While they have lots of enthusiasm, they often don't have a high degree of training.  So they may:
• Encourage children to play when they have an injury that may get worse if they do so.
• Drill and/or drive the kids so hard that some with real talent may become disillusioned with the game and quit
• Teach the kids some ``bad" habits which may be more difficult to ``un-teach" when they get to a higher level of play.
• In his experience, most kids with similar physical abilities will become comparable players by about mid-season in their Freshman year even when some participated in tackle football for years before they joined the high school football team.

With that guidance, his parents chose to make him wait until he was in high school before allowing him to play tackle football.

He did play one season of Flag Football in a ``fun to play" league where no scores or stats were tracked.