Tahoe Daily Tribune
Staff report

INCLINE VILLAGE — Sierra Nevada College has awarded a scholarship to professional snowboarder Travis Parker. Parker will attend Sierra Nevada College on an annual art scholarship in the amount of $15,000 per year, totaling $60,000 over a four-year period. Parker will enter the college in the fall as a fine arts major in painting and drawing, and also plans to get his teaching credential.

Parker has been attending Lake Tahoe Community College for the past three years. His scholarship is a result of an ink portrait drawing he entered in an invitational art show for area colleges presented by Sierra Nevada College.

With a sponsorship from K2, he'll be working weekends snowboarding at local Tahoe resorts and participating in product design and development, when he's not studying or working on his art.