Travis Day joined the rowing staff in the fall of 2018 as the assistant coach.
In his first season, Day helped the Buccaneers earn a silver medal and 17th place for the pair of V4 boats at the 2018 Head of the Charles in the collegiate fours event. In the 2019 spring season, the varsity four took first-place over Rollins & Florida, fifth overall at both the Southern Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships and Florida Intercollegiate Rowing Championships, and fourth at the Sunshine State Conference Championship, helping the Bucs to a runner-up team finish.
The 2018-19 team saw Alejandra Alonso named a Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association All-American for the second straight year and six rowers named CRCA Scholar Athletes. Alonso and Alexa Kalinowski earned All-SSC honors while Janika Koelblin was named to the SSC All-Freshman team.
Prior to Barry, Day served two seasons as volunteer assistant coach at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas from 2017-18. Under head coach Kim Cupini, Day helped the Mustangs to their then-highest American Athletic Conference Championship team finish in history in 2018. SMU finished fourth overall, led by the team's first ever medal performances, with gold in the varsity four and bronze in the first varsity eight. The 2017-18 Mustangs included three all-conference selections and six CRCA Scholar Athletes.
Prior to SMU, he was an assistant coach under Derek Updegraff at Central Pennsylvania Rowing Association in Sunbury, Pa., where he coached the junior women’s quads, doubles and singles, and junior men’s quad. His class of 2015 saw athletes go on to row at Louisville, Duquesne, Bryn Mawr and Ithaca College. In addition, he served on the communications staff at US Rowing in Princeton, N.J., in 2015 while training with Carnegie Lake Rowing Association under Alex Mann and Brandon Shald.
Day rowed at Dowling College from 2011 to 2013 and Fairfield University from 2014 to 2016. He rowed from bow seat of Fairfield’s 2014 Head of the Charles varsity eight which secured a program-first automatic qualification for the 2015 regatta, where he stroked the Stags’ eight in the same event. In his senior season in 2016, Day served as captain and was stroke seat of the program’s first gold medal crew at the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championship in the varsity four, earning all-conference honors. The crew also advanced to the Dad Vail Regatta semifinal and was the program's first entry in the IRA National Championship.
Day is a 2016 graduate of Fairfield University, where he earned a B.A. in journalism and professional writing, and was a contributing sports writer for The Fairfield Mirror newspaper. Day also possesses a Level II USRowing certification.
Day is originally from Lewisburg, Pa., where he graduated from Lewisburg Area High School.
