Career
He was born to Julie and Roger Trammell in Atlanta, Georgia. The 1997 Track & Field News Male High School Athlete of the Year, he attended the University of South Carolina where he trained under Curtis Frye. He qualified for the 2008 Beijing Olympics but had to pull out of the competition after injuring his hamstring in the preliminary rounds.
He trained in Atlanta with his High School (Southwest Dekalb High School) coach Napoleon Cobb.