As a running back at Washington High School Travis Daniels embodied perpetual motion, but after Friday night his Pam Pack legacy will remain forever still near the field he once dominated as he is  set to be inducted into the Washington Walk of Fame.
The ceremony will take place at halftime of Washington’s football game against Beddingfield and joining Daniels in the class of 2013 is former softball ace Charity Watson, three-sport star Adrian Bowen and the 1947 football team.
Daniels, who graduated Washington in 2008, was the ultimate competitor on the gridiron as he rumbled his way to 5,168 career yards and 52 touchdowns in three-plus seasons on the varsity team.
“I’m very happy to be inducted,” Daniels said. “It makes me feel like all my hard work has paid off. In high school I never would have thought that I would make the Walk of Fame. That means a lot to me.”
As a senior, Daniels rushed for 2,290 yards and 22 TDs to earn his third straight all-conference honors and the Washington Daily News Athlete of the Year award.
“I knew it was my last go-round so I put a lot of work into the offseason going into my senior year,” Daniels said. “I just wanted to help my team win.”
Daniels was a complete back, equipped with the necessary speed and toughness that allowed him to grind out three yards or explode for 50.
“He was just a very physical back,” Washington coach Sport Sawyer. “He wasn’t going to go down on first contact. I knew that if we needed a yard he was going to do everything in his power to get that yard.”
That stellar senior year began an ended with 300-yard games as Daniels busted out of the gate for 330 and four TDs in a season-opening win North Pitt before he rushed for 327 and four scores during the Pack’s season-ending loss in the playoffs.
Daniels played a portion of his freshman season on the varsity squad before rushing for 1,100 yards and 11 touchdowns a sophomore.
As a junior, Daniels galloped for 1,553 yards and 21 touchdowns before breaking the 2,000-yard mark as a senior.
Upon graduation, Daniels went on to play football at Pembroke where he would rush for 1,631 yards to rank fifth in the nation as senior en route to being named a Div. II all-American.
Daniels graduated with a degree in exercise physiology and is now a teacher and a running backs coach at Purnell Swett High School.