Maureen Travers just completed her fourth season as head coach of the C.W. Post women's swimming program. She was chosen to head the fledgling program during the Spring 2002, and she also serves as aquatics director for C.W. Post's Pratt Recreation Center.

The 2005-06 season was arguably the most successful in program history for the Pioneers, who compiled a 6-4 dual-meet record. C.W. Post placed fifth at the Metropolitan Conference Championships, and 11th at the ECAC Open Championships. Additionally, Shannon Rideout became the first swimmer in CWP history to compete at the NCAA Division II Championships, where she placed 17th nationally in the 100-yard backstroke. In total, Travers's squad broke 11 school records on the season.

During the 2004-05 campaign, the C.W. Post swimming team posted a 6-3 dual-meet mark, earned a fifth-place finish at the Metropolitan Championships, and placed 11th at the ECAC Championships.

In 2003-04, Travers led the team to a 6-6 mark and was acknowledged at the conclusion of the campaign as the Metropolitan Conference Coach of the Year. The award was in recognition of her role in improving a competitive unit that finished 2-7 in the program's inaugural year in 2002-03. During that first year, the Pioneers were edged in three meets by a combined 38 points.

Prior to her appointment at C.W. Post, Travers was head coach for five years with the men's and women's swimming team and women's water polo squad at Whittier (Calif.). Her tenure was marked by 25 new school records in swimming and included a men's conference champion in the 200-yard butterfly and a women's national qualifier in the 100-yard breaststroke. Five members of her women's water polo team garnered All-America kudos.

Travers's coaching resume also includes a stint as assistant men's and women's swimming coach for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (1991-95), head coach of the Harvard women's water polo squad (1993-97), and head coach of the women's swimming team at Simmons College in 1995.

In August 1990, Travers added an impressive accomplishment to her swimming resume, as she swam across the English Channel.

The Levittown, N.Y. resident graduated from Queens College in 1987 with a degree in Physical Education before earning a master's degree in Exercise & Sports Studies from Smith College in Northampton, Mass. She was team Most Valuable Player for Queens in 1984 and 1985 in swimming, and also won team MVP accolades while competing for the men's water polo team in 1987.