Travis Feezell Position: Associate Professor - Sport Management Institution: Belmont Abbey College

Travis Feezell currently serves as an associate professor of management at Belmont Abbey College in Belmont, North Carolina. His areas of research include higher education and sport as well as leadership in sport organizations.

Prior to his appointment at Belmont Abbey College, Feezell served as the athletics director at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota from 2005-2008. While there Feezell oversaw all facets of the athletics department including varsity, club and intramural sports. He was athletics director at a time when Macalester made over $50 million in investments in athletics facilities including a new baseball/softball complex, new synthetic surface for the football/soccer stadium, and the new $45 million Leonard Athletics and Recreation Center.

Prior to his tenure at Macalester, Feezell headed the Whitman College (Walla Walla, WA) athletics department for five years, overseeing 18 varsity programs, intramurals and teaching classes on sports culture and great books. He was the baseball coach for six years as well.

Before working at Whitman, he was an academic adviser in the athletics department at Northwestern. He has also been active on NCAA committees including the Division III Management Council and the Division III Financial Aid Awards Committee.

Feezell, a high school baseball star in Nebraska, earned his bachelor's degree in English from the Wyoming in 1990. While at Wyoming, Feezell was a varsity baseball player and a finalist for a Rhodes Scholarship in 1989. In 1992, he earned his master's degree in medieval british studies from the University of Wales, Cardiff, Great Britain, and his doctorate in education from the University of Idaho this year.

Feezell and his wife Carol, the former Whitman cross country coach, have four children ages 13, 10, 5 and 3.