Rachel Travis - Women's Basketball Coach

Rachel Travis

Title:
Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coordinator
Email:
rachel-travis@utulsa.edu

Rachel Travis joined The University of Tulsa as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the Golden Hurricane women’s basketball team in August 2024. She brings 14 years of coaching experience to Tulsa.

Travis spent 2023-24 in Eagle Point, Ore. as the program director and head varsity coach of the Eagle Point High School girl’s basketball team and the six years before that as an assistant coach at the University of South Alabama (2017-23), where she was promoted to recruiting coordinator (2020-23) and associate head coach (2021-23).

While at EPHS last year, Travis coached four players to All-Midwestern League status and had multiple players break single-game steal and point records.

During Travis' tenure in Mobile, Ala., the South Alabama Jaguars participated in the 2018 Women's Basketball Invitational Tournament, the 2019 Sun Belt Conference Tournament Championship game and the 2019 Women's National Invitational Tournament.

The Jaguars went to the WBI Final Four in 2018, before winning a program-record 25 games in 2019 and advancing to their first Sun Belt Conference Tournament Championship game since 1989. After falling in the SBC Tournament Championship game, USA earned its first WNIT appearance since 2004. There, it won its first game in the tournament since 1988 after breaking Lamar's 42-game home winning streak, which was the nation's second-longest streak at the time.

Travis began her collegiate coaching career at Longwood (2014-17) where she was an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the Lancers for three seasons.

Prior to her time with Longwood, Travis was the head varsity girls' basketball coach at Florida Air Academy (2012-14). During her first season in Melbourne, Florida, Travis led the Falcons to a 3A District Championship title after going 21-5 and 10-0 in district play and finished as the runner-up in 2014 after going 19-8 and 9-1 in district play.

Travis was a three-year starter and captain at Northwest University where she finished her collegiate career with 1,092 points. She graduated with her bachelor's degree in secondary education in May 2009.