Steve Travis is in his 32nd year with the Wisconsin Lutheran College men's and women's track & field programs, and 11th as an assistant coach. Travis served as head coach of both programs from 1994-2014. 

Travis joined the Warriors in August 1993, working as coach of the cross country club team before the program gained intercollegiate status in 1994. He was the only head coach in WLC's intercollegiate track & field programs' history since it began in the spring of 1994.

Since the NACC began sponsoring track & field as a conference sport in 2007, Travis guided the women's team to three runner-up finishes at the conference championships (2007 indoor, 2013 indoor and outdoor). The men's program also posted a trio of third-place finishes at the championships (2007 indoor and outdoor, 2008 outdoor). Travis mentored six athletes who have received 10 major conference championship awards since 2007.

The 2012 season saw Travis Turnquist finish with the 23rd-fastest 400-Meter dash time in the country. Turnquist ran the race in 48.24 seconds, a time that ranked second among freshmen across the nation.

In 2010, Travis mentored Dominique Johnson who became the first student-athlete in WLC track & field history to qualify for the NCAA Championships. Johnson placed 10th in the Triple Jump at the indoor championships, before returning to the outdoor championships and finishing one spot shy (ninth) of earning All-American honors in the same event.

The 2012 women's team was one of the best in WLC history. Sophomores Marya Haegler and Julie Favorite placed first and second overall at the NACC Championships. In total, four WLC runners finished inside the top-11 as the team finished second in the field, its highest finish at a conference championship since 2005. Haegler earned NACC Runner of the Year honors, giving a WLC runner that distinction for three straight years. The Warriors women also had their best-ever finish at the NCAA Division III Midwest Regional, placing 21st out of 40 teams. Haegler earned All-Region honors by finishing 33rd overall.

In 2011, Travis coached Katie Schommer to a second consecutive win at the NACC Championships, as she became the first women's runner in conference history to repeat as champion at the event. The 2010 season marked the first time that a Warriors women's cross country student-athlete qualified for the NCAA Division III Championships. Schommer placed 47th out of 279 runners at the event with a time of 21:58.1.

Zach Shiels became the first student-athlete in program history to qualify for the NCAA Division III Championships in 2008, placing 24th overall in a field of 280 runners at the NCAA Division III Midwest Regional.

Both teams finished runner-up at the 2005 Lake Michigan Conference Championships, the best finish for the men in 11 previous seasons of LMC competition. The women posted no lower than a second-place finish in the LMC for six straight seasons (2000-2005). Travis, who coached the women's team to LMC titles in 2002 and 2004, was named LMC Coach of the Year each of those years.

Individually, Travis has coached seven conference champions; Jacob Jodat (2017), Chase Robles (2014), Marya Haegler (2012), Katie Schommer (2011, 2010), Zach Shiels (2008), Tim Koepsell (2002, 2003, 2005), who was the first male student-athlete in LMC cross country history to win three titles, and Rebecca Porinsky (2001). The Warriors have combined for 10 individual titles in the past 21 seasons.

A 1993 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Travis earned his degree in physical education with an emphasis in corporate fitness. He started his collegiate athletic career as a wide receiver for two seasons with the Warhawks football team before turning his focus to the track as a mid-distance runner where he was a three-time All-American. In 1992, Travis won the 800-meter title during the NCAA Division III Track & Field Championships held at Colby College (Maine) with a school-record time of 1:50.68. Travis was inducted into the UW-Whitewater Athletics Hall of Fame on October 25, 2008.

After college, he competed for five years as a track club member at UW-Milwaukee. Travis was invited to race at the Kansas Relays three times (best showing a third-place finish in the 800 meters in 1996) and the Drake Relays once (a seventh-place finish in 1998). He also raced in the 800-meter qualifying open three times at the Mt. Sac Relays in California.

In 1998, Travis placed seventh at the U.S. Indoor Championships with an 800-meter time of 1:49.44. That same year he posted his best 800-meter time of 1:48.81 while racing outdoors at Georgia Tech.

A member of the USTFCCCA Awards Sub Committee and the Wisconsin Cross Country Coaches Association, Travis was born in Mobridge, South Dakota. He resides in Pewaukee with his wife, Gwen.