Travis Spencer was named Muhlenberg's first-ever women's wrestling head coach and assistant athletic director for marketing and engagement in 2023.
Spencer is a 1998 graduate of the University of Scranton, where he was a three-year captain and two-year regional placewinner in wrestling. After serving as an assistant coach at his alma mater from 1998 to 2004, he was a team ambassador for wrestling at Lehigh University while working in the athletic department as assistant director for athletics partnership and director of business development. As team ambassador, Spencer coordinated staff and managed all wrestling events in addition to assisting with all marketing and promotions for the nationally prominent Lehigh wrestling program.
After leaving Lehigh in 2018, Spencer spent four years as Director of Athletics at Centenary University, where he provided oversight for a program that qualified a wrestler for the NCAA Championships every season he was there.
Spencer, who earned master’s degrees in physical education from Old Dominion University in 2005 and in education leadership from Lehigh in 2019, also has contributed to wrestling as a technician for camps and clinics and PIAA wrestling official.
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