Travis Gillespie

Background

With his father coaching, Gillespie began playing lacrosse at four.

Career

Growing up in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, he excelled at many sports and played hockey, basketball, and soccer, in addition to box and field lacrosse. Travis, prior to attending Limestone College in South Carolina on an athletic scholarship for lacrosse, had been on 12 provincial lacrosse teams, the Canadian team, the British Columbia Selects, and had been the Field Lacrosse Provincial All-Star Goal Tender. Travis also played box lacrosse with the Orangeville Northmen of the Ontario Junior.

A League

Currently, Travis is coaching the New Westminster U17 and running a development team in Vancouver for players wishing to play in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Travis is in his second year coaching the Lacrosse Nation camps.

Travis Gillespie was the #4 draft pick by the Columbus Landsharks out of Limestone College in the 2002 National Lacrosse League entry draft. Gillespie then found his way to the Arizona Sting.

In October 2004, the Sting traded him to the Calgary Roughnecks who signed him to a one-year contract. In 2005, the Roughnecks re-signed him to a two-year contract.

In July, 2008, the Boston Blazers traded for Gillespie and then, as part of a three-team deal, traded him to the San Jose Stealth.

The Stealth then signed him to a one-year contract.

Achievements

• Travis Gillespie is a two-time Division 2 National Collegiate Athletic Association champion with the Limestone College Saints where, in 2000, 2001, and 2002, he won three All-Conference, three All-American, and one Academic All-American awards. Gillespie was a member of Team Canada"s U19 team where he won a silver medal while playing bigstick. In 2000, Travis also won a Mann Cup (Canadian National box champions) with the Coquitlam Adanacs and has spent the past four seasons playing in the National Lacrosse League after being selected with the Columbus Landsharks fifth overall pick.