During his second season, Nead guided the Cobras to two wins in the shortened 2021 spring season. Emily Everton was named to the 2020-21 South Atlantic Conference Honorable Mention team. 

Nead coached Coker to seven wins in 2019-20, including four in South Atlantic Conference play. Over the course of the season, Taylor du Bray recorded both her 1,000th career dig and 1,000th career kill, while Rami Mullen posted her 1,000th career assist. At the conclusion of the season, du Bray was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team. Academically, Volleyball posted the best GPA in the department at 3.84 for the Spring 2020 semester, and also landed 11 on the 2019-20 South Atlantic Conference Commissioner's Honor Roll. Under Nead's guidance, the Cobras also recieved the USMC/AVCA Team Academic Award for posting at least a 3.30 Team GPA for the 2019-20 year, coming in at 3.53. 

Travis Nead was named the Coker College head women's volleyball coach in January 2019. Nead spent the previous five seasons as the assistant volleyball coach and recruiting coordinator for Western Carolina University.  He thrived as an in-game defensive coach, and was responsible for preparing tactical scouting reports for defensive schemes, organizing team travel, and managing the recruiting process for the entire program.

Nead has coached a Southern Conference All-Freshman Team recipient in each of the past three seasons, as well as multiple players that have received defensive player of the week and defensive player of the month awards.

Prior to his time at Western Carolina, Nead was an assistant volleyball coach with Eckerd College, as well as the head coach at Carrollwood Day School where he compiled an overall record of 43-31. Nead was also a club volleyball head coach for several clubs in the Tampa and St. Petersburg areas where he posted an overall record of 126-65.

He graduated with a business management degree from the University of South Florida in 2010, and then received his masters in recreation and sports sciences from Ohio University in 2013. He is a native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and the husband of Stephanie Nead.