Stephen D. Travers is a volunteer sprints coach for the University of Maryland track and field/cross country program in College Park, Maryland, a role he has held for the past four years.
Travers has coached track and field for more than four decades. He began in the 1980s at St. Mark's the Evangelist School in Adelphi, Maryland, where he coached for the Catholic Youth Organization and also led his summer program, Travers Track Club, which competed in the East Coast Invitational Track Meet and other regional meets. He later spent many years as an assistant coach at HD Woodson Sr. High School in Washington, D.C., serving as a sprints and jumps coach and strength and conditioning coordinator while helping develop record-setting athletes.