Travis Colter

Colter began curling at around 2007. By 2010, he had already joined up with former Brier champion Mark Dacey, playing lead on his team. He played in his first provincial championship at the 2011 Nova Scotia Men's Molson Provincial Championship. There, the team lost in the C qualifier final. The next season, they lost in the final of the 2012 Nova Scotia Men's Molson Provincial Championship to the Jamie Murphy rink.{{cite web|url=https://www.curlingzone.com/event.php?view=Team&eventid=2668&teamid=58589&profileid=|title=NS Molson Tankard|publisher=CurlingZone}} In 2012, Colter joined the Kevin Saccary rink, and joined the Tommy Sullivan rink in 2014. The Sullivan rink went 2–5 at the 2015 provincial championship.{{cite web|url=https://www.curlingzone.com/event.php?view=Team&eventid=3744&teamid=85062&profileid=|title=Sullivan 2-5 at 2015 Nova Scotia Tankard|publisher=CurlingZone}}

In 2015, Colter joined the Stuart Thompson rink as the team's second. Team found immediate success on the World Curling Tour, winning two events in 2015, the Bud Light Men's Cashspiel{{cite web|url=https://www.curlingzone.com/event.php?view=Team&eventid=3935&teamid=89624&profileid=|title=Champion: Thompson wins Bud Light Men's Cashspiel|publisher=CurlingZone}} and the Spitfire Arms Cash Spiel.{{cite web|url=https://www.curlingzone.com/event.php?view=Team&eventid=3935&teamid=89624&profileid=|title=Champion: Thompson wins Spitfire Arms Cash Spiel|publisher=CurlingZone}} The team played in the 2016 provincial championships, finishing fourth with a 4–3 record.{{cite web|url=https://www.curlingzone.com/event.php?view=Team&eventid=4180&teamid=94717&profileid=|title=Thompson 4-3 at 2016 Nova Scotia Tankard|publisher=CurlingZone}}

Team Thompson began the 2016–17 season by winning the Lakeshore Curling Club Cashspiel.{{cite web|url=https://www.curlingzone.com/event.php?view=Team&eventid=4377&teamid=100049&profileid=|title=Champion: Thompson wins Lakeshore Curling Club Cashspiel|publisher=CurlingZone}} Two months later, the team won the Challenge Casino de Charlevoix event.{{cite web|url=https://www.curlingzone.com/event.php?view=Team&eventid=4325&teamid=103799&profileid=|title=Champion: Thompson wins Challenge Casino de Charlevoix|publisher=CurlingZone}} At the 2017 Deloitte Tankard provincial championship, the rink finished the round robin with a 5–2 record, which put the team into the playoffs. They won their semifinal match, but lost in the final to Jamie Murphy.{{cite web|url=https://www.curlingzone.com/event.php?view=Team&eventid=4657&teamid=106709&profileid=|title=Thompson Runner Up at 2017 Nova Scotia Deloitte Tankard|publisher=CurlingZone}} At the 2018 Deloitte Tankard, they went 4–3 in the round robin, putting them in a three-way tiebreaker. They won both their tiebreak matches, but lost in the semifinal to Colter's former skip, Mark Dacey.{{cite web|url=https://www.curlingzone.com/event.php?view=Team&eventid=5166&teamid=118580&profileid=|title=Thompson Reaches 2018 Nova Scotia Deloitte Tankard Semifinals|publisher=CurlingZone}}

The Thompson rink began the 2018–19 season by winning the 2018 Curling Store Cashspiel tour event.{{cite web|url=https://www.curlingzone.com/event.php?view=Team&eventid=5560&teamid=124738&profileid=|title=Champion: Thompson wins 2018 The Curling Store Cashspiel|publisher=CurlingZone}} Later that season, the team won the 2019 Deloitte Tankard in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia{{cite web|url=https://www.curlingzone.com/event.php?view=Team&eventid=5749&teamid=131702&profileid=|title=Champion: Thompson wins 2019 Nova Scotia Deloitte Tankard|publisher=CurlingZone}} qualifying them for the 2019 Tim Hortons Brier in Brandon, Manitoba for the first time.{{cite web|url=https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/sports/other-sports/thompsons-brier-dream-a-reality-288480/|title=Thompson's Brier dream a reality|publisher=The Chronicle Herald}} At the Brier, as Team Nova Scotia, the team finished with a 3–4 record in pool play. The next season, Colter moved to play lead on the team. The team won a second straight Curling Store Cashspiel in 2019{{cite web|url=https://www.curlingzone.com/event.php?view=Team&eventid=5857&teamid=137403&profileid=|title=Champion: Thompson wins 2019 The Curling Store Cashspiel|publisher=CurlingZone}} At the 2020 Deloitte Tankard, the team finished the round robin with a 4–3 record, and then lost in a tiebreaker match to Chad Stevens.{{cite web|url=https://www.curlingzone.com/event.php?view=Team&eventid=6368&teamid=144127&profileid=|title=Thompson|publisher=CurlingZone}}

Colter formed his own rink in 2020 as a skip, but throwing third stones with teammates Robby McLean, Ian Juurlink and Cameron MacKenzie. The team won their first event together, the 2020 Curling Store Cashspiel, the third straight title for Colter.{{cite web|url=https://www.curlingzone.com/event.php?view=Team&eventid=6702&teamid=148652&profileid=|title=Colter 4-1 at The Curling Store Cashspiel|publisher=CurlingZone}}{{cite web|url=https://www.tsn.ca/jones-laing-win-mix-doubles-bonspiel-in-waterloo-as-curling-continues-to-return-1.1530684|title=Jones, Laing win mixed doubles bonspiel in Waterloo as curling returns|date=27 September 2020 |publisher=TSN}}

Colter and partner Julia Williams won the 2014 provincial mixed doubles curling championship. The pair represented Nova Scotia at the 2014 Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Trials where they finished with a 1–6 record.

As of 2019, Colter was employed as a project quotation specialist for Graybar Canada. He is married.

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