Mention Reid Travis in Minneapolis and you’ll likely hear “the bike story.” It begins with Jackie Travis calling a coach to say that she was sending her two older sons to his youth basketball clinic.
A while later, the coach sees Jonah Travis and Reid Travis pedaling their bicycles to the gym door. As the coach, Dave Thorson re-told the story this week, Jonah was a fifth- or sixth-grader. Reid was a second- or third-grader.
“To think that 20 years later one is a Harvard grad that went to four NCAA tournaments with Harvard,” Thorson said of Jonah, “and one’s a Stanford grad (Reid), now he’s finally getting to play in the NCAA Tournament, what a poignant story.