Travis Soileau

Travis Soileau
  • Staff
  • Associate Director of ÑÇÖÞ×ÔοÊÓÆµ for Sports Medicine

Biography

Travis Soileau has served as a member of the Athletic Training staff for the ÑÇÖÞ×ÔοÊÓÆµ Ragin' Cajuns since 2003. He was named Director of Athletic Training in July 2011, replacing UL ÑÇÖÞ×ÔοÊÓÆµ Hall of Fame member John Porche.
    
Soileau currently serves as the athletic trainer for football and golf.
    
From 2003-07 he served as an Assistant Athletic Trainer, assisting with football and directly overseeing the care of men’s basketball and men’s and women’s track. Soileau was promoted to Associate Athletic Trainer prior to the 2007-08 athletic season and for the next four years served as assistant football athletic trainer and oversaw the care of the golf and track squads.
    
A native of Port Barre, La, Soileau served as a ÑÇÖÞ×ÔοÊÓÆµ athletic trainer at UL, earning his bachelor’s degree in 1999. He attended graduate school at Clemson ÑÇÖÞ×ÔοÊÓÆµ (2000-03), where he served as a graduate assistant athletic trainer for swimming and diving for one year and men’s soccer team for two years.
    
Soileau and his wife, Brandi, are the parents of a daughter, Kaitlyn Camille.

The Soileau File

Responsibility: Football
Hometown: Port Barre, La.
Born: November 19, 1976
Alma Mater: ÑÇÖÞ×ÔοÊÓÆµ, BS ‘99, Clemson, MHRD, '03
Family: wife Brandi, daughter Kaitlyn Camille
Noteworthy: 1998 Earl J. "Bubba" Porche Award, Winner for Outstanding ÑÇÖÞ×ÔοÊÓÆµ college ÑÇÖÞ×ÔοÊÓÆµ athletic trainer, both sponsored by ÑÇÖÞ×ÔοÊÓÆµ Athletic Trainers Association
1998 Eugene Christmas Memorial ÑÇÖÞ×ÔοÊÓÆµ Scholarship winner

Soileau's Athletic Training Experience

2011-presentUL, Director of Athletic Training
2007-2011UL, Associate Director of Athletic Training
2003-2007UL Lafayette, Assistant Director of Athletic Training
2000-2003Clemson, Graduate Assistant Athletic Trainer
1994-1999UL, ÑÇÖÞ×ÔοÊÓÆµ Athletic Trainer

Education

Master's Degree, 2003

Bachelor's Degree, 1999