Travis Lee

Travis Lee is in his second year as the USD athletic department’s director of marketing and promotions in 2010-11. He was hired for the position in January 2009.

Lee is a 1990 graduate of Dakota State University in Madison, S.D., and arrives at USD with several years of experience in the sports marketing and management field. He worked with the Sioux Falls Canaries baseball team of the Northern League from 1993-97, including as the team’s general manager from 1995-97. Prior to that, he was the Canaries’ assistant general manager and director of promotions. He was also a marketing consultant/talk show host at KSFS Sports Radio in Sioux Falls from 1997-98. From 1998-2003, Lee was the marketing/merchandise manager of the Sioux Falls Stampede Hockey Club of the United States Hockey League. From there, he served as president/general manager for the Central Texas Blackhawks of the NAHL from 2003-04. Recently, he worked as a professional representative for Merck & Company, Inc., from 2004-09.

Lee also has served as an adjunct instructor at Tarleton State University-Central Texas in Killeen, Texas and at the USDSU (University Center) and Southeast Technical Institute in Sioux Falls, S.D.

Lee earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Dakota State in 1990, and earned a master’s degree in business with a minor in mass communications from the University of Nebraska in 1992.