Travis Hayes was a member of the Southeast Missouri State baseball team during its 2014 and 2015 Ohio Valley Conference championship seasons and was OVC Co-Pitcher of the Year in 2014. He spent his first three years of college playing baseball for the Jefferson College Vikings and graduated from Southeast in December 2015 with a degree in English.

Travis now works with the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). When he isn't out playing with animals you can more than likely find him on Xbox Live under the gamertag bankshafthenry, or somewhere in Middle Earth in search of the Ring.