Travis Boulware is beginning his 37th season on the Miner staff. serving as an athletic attendant for the athletics department.
Boulware has served on the S&T staff since 1987, when he joined the football coaching staff as its defensive backfield coach. He worked on both sides of the ball while on the staff -- most of it on defense, but did coach the Miner running backs during the 1997 and 1998 seasons. Â
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In the 2008 season, the Miner defense held its opponents to 274 points, the lowest total in 14 seasons. S&T’s defense ranked second overall in the Great Lakes Football
Conference as well as in pass defense, where it held the opposition to just over 219 yards per game.
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Boulware came to Missouri S&T from Washburn University, where he served as the defensive backs coach. In 1986, Washburn’s defense ranked first against the pass in the Central States Intercollegiate Conference.Â
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Boulware, a 1982 graduate of Tennessee Technological University, played defensive back for the school’s football team for two seasons. Prior to that, he spent two years at Chowan Junior College in North Carolina.  Boulware also received his master’s degree from Tennessee Tech.
A native of High Point, N.C., Boulware also served as S&T’s baseball coach for 13 seasons from 1991-2003. The Miners were 20-19 in the 2003 season, their second winning season in his final three years as head coach. S&T also finished as runner-up in the MIAA Tournament to NCAA Division II World Series participant University of Central Missouri in 1997.
