Travis Dorsch
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| Position: | Punter | ||||||||
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| Born: | September 4, 1979 San Diego, California, U.S. | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 230 lb (104 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school: | Bozeman (Bozeman, Montana) | ||||||||
| College: | Purdue (1998–2001) | ||||||||
| NFL draft: | 2002 / Round: 4 / Pick: 109 | ||||||||
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Travis Edward Dorsch (born September 4, 1979) is an American former football punter who played in the National Football League (NFL) for two seasons. He played college football for the Purdue Boilermakers, where he won the Ray Guy Award and was recognized as a consensus All-American. He was selected by the Cincinnati Bengals in the fourth round of the 2002 NFL draft. He also played for the Green Bay Packers and the Rhein Fire of the NFL Europe.
Early years[edit]
Dorsch was born in San Diego, California. He attended Bozeman High School in Bozeman, Montana, and was a letterman in high school football, basketball, and track and field for the Bozeman Hawks. He also played four years of American Legion baseball for the Bozeman Bucks as a starting first baseman and pitcher. He holds several state records including the longest field goal in state history (fifth-longest in the national high school annals) at 63 yards.[1][2]
College career[edit]
While attending Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, Dorsch played for both the Purdue Boilermakers football team and the Boilermakers baseball team. While playing for the Boilermakers football team from 1998 to 2001, Dorsch set many records including career scoring (355 points), career field goals (69), and career punting average (48.4). He became the first Big Ten Conference athlete to be named as a first-team all-conference selection as both a punter and a placekicker. He was recognized as a consensus first-team All-American punter, having received first-team honors from the American Football Coaches Association, Associated Press, Walter Camp Foundation and CNNSI.[3] He also and won the Ray Guy Award for the nation's outstanding punter, and received first-team All-American honors as a placekicker from Football News and The Sporting News. He is the only athlete in Purdue history to have kicked a field goal and thrown a touchdown in football, and hit a home run and recorded a win as a pitcher in baseball.[2]
Professional career[edit]
As a football player, Dorsch was drafted in the fourth round (111th overall pick) in the 2002 NFL Draft by the Cincinnati Bengals.[4] His only NFL experience came with the Bengals in 2002. He had 5 punts, averaging just 32.4 as an injury replacement for starter Nick Harris. Dorsch was a member of the 2004 Green Bay Packers playoff roster and was a practice squad member with the Minnesota Vikings in 2004. He spent 2005 and 2006 competing in NFL Europe as a punter for the Rhein Fire in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Life after football[edit]
Dorsch is currently an associate professor at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. He pursued graduate studies at Purdue and completed his doctorate in Sports and Exercise Psychology in 2013.[5] After retiring from football in 2006, he has focused his competitive energies on the sport of triathlon and has finished nine Ironman races worldwide.
As a professor, Dorsch is the founding director of the Families in Sport Lab at Utah State University and has published more than 30 scholarly articles, all of which can be downloaded on his lab's website: www.FamiliesInSportLab.usu.edu.
Dorsch is also head coach of the Cache Valley Ski Team (CVST).
References[edit]
- ^ "Travis Dorsch". National Football League. Retrieved July 31, 2011.
- ^ a b "30 Travis Dorsch Profile". Purdue Sports. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
- ^ 2011 NCAA Football Records Book, Award Winners, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Indianapolis, Indiana, p. 11 (2011). Retrieved June 23, 2012.
- ^ "2002 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved March 18, 2023.
- ^ "Family, Consumer, and Human Development: Travis Dorsch". usu.edu.
- 1979 births
- Living people
- American football placekickers
- American football punters
- Cincinnati Bengals players
- Green Bay Packers players
- Minnesota Vikings players
- New England Patriots players
- New York Giants players
- Purdue Boilermakers baseball players
- Purdue Boilermakers football players
- Rhein Fire players
- All-American college football players
- Utah State University faculty
- Sportspeople from Bozeman, Montana
- Players of American football from Montana
- Players of American football from San Diego
- Bozeman High School alumni