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Travis Tygart

Title:
Senior Managing Director & General Counsel

Organisation:
USADA

E-mail:
ttygart@usantidoping.org

Website:
www.usantidoping.org/

Curriculum Vitae

Travis T. Tygart joined USADA in October 2002 as Director of Legal Affairs.

 

In October 2004, he became Senior Managing Director and General Counsel, overseeing all legal and communication matters for USADA, including the prosecution of alleged doping offenses in arbitration before the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

 

Tygart was involved with drafting the USADA Protocol for Olympic Movement Testing and the World Anti-Doping Agency’s Code, the core document that provides a framework for anti-doping policies, rules, and regulations within sport organizations and among public authorities.

 

He served as the legal expert for the WADA Independent Observer Team at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England and was a USADA representative at the 2003 World Conference on Doping in Sport in Copenhagen, Denmark. Tygart also has been a participant at the Council of Europe, the Association of National Anti-Doping Agencies and was a presenter at the 2003 WADA Out-of-Competition (OOC) Symposium.

 

He is a frequent invited speaker at sports conferences, including “Play the Game” in Copenhagen, the Harvard and Stanford Sports Law Conferences, the National Institute for Sports Law, and the American Bar Association Entertainment and Sports Law Forum.

 

Tygart currently serves on the board of advisors for the Taylor Hooton Foundation, the Society for Major League Baseball (MLB) Strength and Conditioning Coaches, and the House Government Reform Committee’s Zero Tolerance Roundtable.

 

Prior to joining USADA, Tygart was an associate in the sports law practice group at Holme, Roberts and Owen, LLP (HRO). While at HRO, Tygart worked with individual athletes and several sport entities, including the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), USA Basketball, USA Swimming, USA Volleyball, the Pro Rodeo Cowboys’ Association, and the Mountain West Conference.

 

Originally from Jacksonville, Fla., Tygart graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and earned his

J.D. from Southern Methodist University in 1999, graduating Order of the Coif. He has published law review articles addressing anti-doping issues, the antitrust implications for professional sports, and Title IX’s impact on high school athletics.