2024 Annual Meeting - Travel & Sports Legacy Foundation

Join us for our 2024 Annual Meeting

Wednesday, May 8, 2024
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

at the Dr. Marcelo Cavazos Center for Visual & Performing Arts of Arlington ISD

Lunch will be provided by Ella B’s Restaurant

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Joe Trahan is the Lead Sports Anchor at WFAA in Dallas, TX.

Joe joined Channel 8 in June 2003 and has been a fixture on the local sports scene for more than half of his nearly 30-year career in local television news.

The native Houstonian began his career in 1989 while he was still in college. During his senior year at Loyola University, he worked the overnight shift as a news writer on WWL-TV’s highly successful morning show.

Joe’s on-air sports career began at WCBD-TV in Charleston, SC and included a return to New Orleans for a 9-year stint at WVUE-TV where he was named Sports Director.

Since joining WFAA, Joe’s covered title runs from the Rangers and Mavericks including the Mavs magical run that ended with a championship in 2011. He’s still waiting on something similar from the Cowboys and Stars.

Joe covers the gamut of sports but readily admits following the NFL is his favorite. “It’s seemingly never a dull moment when you cover the Cowboys,” he says. Joe says they’re controversial and compelling and that’s “good for business.”

He also likes sharing stories that highlight the best in people. Finding examples in sports that illustrate the triumph of the human spirit are his favorite.

Joe and his wife Amy and their two daughters Sophia and Sydney live in Frisco. When not spending family time, you can find Joe on the links, working on his golf game.

Michael and Mary Cinatl

The Travel & Sports Legacy Foundation connects the Arlington community with great careers, tourism enterprises with talented people, and the tourism industry with a more sustainable and employable future.

As one of the most popular sports and travel destinations in the country, Arlington attracts millions of visitors and billions of dollars every year. Our community is home to world-famous sports franchises, gravity-defying thrill rides, exciting new concert venues, chef-driven restaurants and state-of-the-art hotels. But with our impressive growth and growing national attention comes many challenges. The Travel & Sports Legacy Foundation stands ready to meet them. Through an engaged membership and partners across North Texas, TSLF is fostering connections that will ensure Arlington’s economic growth benefits people across the region.

We are connecting young students in middle school, high school and college to great careers through educational programs, skills training, internships and scholarships.
We’re connecting sports, travel, hospitality and entertainment companies to the local talent they need to fill positions across their enterprises — from customer service to IT, catering, logistics and more.
And we’re connecting our entire community to economic well-being and a more sustainable future by nurturing a new generation of educated, engaged and productive citizens.

The Travel & Sports Legacy Foundation. Transforming lives through tourism opportunities.