Cross Country Coaching Staff
Travis Olson
Travis Olson
4th Year Head Coach

Phone 503-883-2530
Fax 503-883-2453
Email tolson@linfield.edu

Biography

Former three-sport star Travis Olson enters his fourth season as head coach after 12 years as an assistant under Dr. Garry Killgore. He also directs the Linfield track and field program in the spring where he has tutored NCAA All-Americans in the high jump, decathlon, heptathlon, javelin, shot put and discus.

As a student-athlete at Linfield, Olson earned 10 varsity letters in track, basketball and football at Linfield and graduated in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in finance. A six-time All-American in the javelin, decathlon and high jump, Olson twice placed second in the javelin at the NAIA championship meet. He was inducted into the Linfield Athletics Hall of Fame in 2012.

He and his wife, Maridee, live in McMinnville with their daughters, Bailee and Olivia.