In 2001, without a sponsor and only 18 years old, Rice drove to Mammoth Mountain in California to ride at
Snowboarder magazine's “Superpark”. Recognition from the snowboarding world would come at this event, when Rice launched a backside rodeo off a 117 foot gap jump. Absinthe Films' producer Justin Hostynek immediately approached Rice to begin filming for their upcoming movie, Transcendence. In 2008, Rice co-produced (with filmmaker Curt Morgan) and starred in the snowboarding film ''That's It That's All''. This film featured Troy Blackburn,
Jeremy Jones, Mark Landvik,
Terje Haakonsen,
Nicolas Müller,
Scotty Lago, Pat Moore, John Jackson,
Jake Blauvelt,
Danny Kass, and fellow Jackson Hole residents
Bryan Iguchi and Kyle Clancy. Rice's part in ''
That's It, That's All, which included the first ever double cork 1260, heavily influenced his sweep at the Transworld'' Magazine Rider's Poll. He won Rider of the Year, Video Part of the Year, Standout of the Year, and Readers’ Choice award. On September 7, 2011, Rice released
The Art of Flight, a film made in collaboration with the same team behind 'That's It, That's All
, including John Jackson, Mark Landvik, Nicolas Müller and Jeremy Jones, Scotty Lago, and Mark McMorris. The success of the
Art of Flight enabled Rice to once again win the TransWorld and Snowboarder Magazine Rider of the Year awards for 2012
. In 2012, Rice coordinated with Red Bull to create natural selection, a backcountry freestyle competition held at Baldface Lodge in British Columbia, Canada. The competition was attended by the world's top snowboarders, including Nicolas Muller, Gigi Ruf and
Mark McMorris, with riders competing in naturally created backcountry terrain. The inaugural winner of the event was the competition creator, Travis Rice. Rice is a downloadable, playable character in
SSX. He is the first "real-life" snowboarder to ever be featured in the franchise. In 2016, Rice released
The Fourth Phase. In 2019, he released
Dark Matter.
Highlights Travis Rice's professional snowboarding career started in 2001. Various competition results taken from EXPN.
2023 • 1st, Yeti Natural Selection Tour Revelstoke, BC
2016-2017 • TransWorld Snowboarding Men's Readers Choice Award
2011–2012 • 1st, Red Bull Supernatural, Baldface Lodge, BC (Backcountry Freestyle) • TransWorld Rider of the Year (4th ROTY Award) • Snowboarder Magazine Rider of the Year (2nd ROTY Award) • National Geographic Adventurer of the Year
2008–2009 • 1st (Gold), X-Games Big Air Competition (2009) • 4th – CJ – 5Star Red Bull Snow Scrapers (
Ticket to Ride (World Snowboard Tour)) • TransWorld Rider of the Year (3rd ROTY Award) • Snowboarder Magazine Rider of the Year
2007–2008 • 1st, Quiksilver Natural Selection, Jackson Hole, WY, (Backcountry Freestyle) • 11th, Nokia Air & Style Big Air Competition • 1st, ICER AIR, San Francisco, CA (Big Air event). With a best run score of 95 for his Double backside Rodeo 1080. • 1st Winter X Games Big Air Double Cork 1080
2006–2007 • 1st, US Open Slopestyle (2007) • 2nd (Silver), Winter X Games, Snowboard Best Trick (2007)
2005–2006 • 12th, FIS World Cup #1, Valle Nevado, Chile (Halfpipe) • 8th, Nokia Air & Style, Munich, Germany (Slopestyle) • 51st, Chevrolet US Snowboard Grand Prix Halfpipe #1 • 26th, Chevrolet US Snowboard Grand Prix Halfpipe #2 • 9th, X Games 10 (Slopestyle) • 2nd, Honda Session at Vail, Co (Rail) • 3rd, Honda Session at Vail, Co (Slopestyle) • 33rd, Ticket To Ride World Snowboard Tour (Season End Rankings, Overall)
2004–2005 • TransWorld Rider of the Year, Reader's Choice (2nd ROTY Award) • Named by
Faces Magazine as one of the Top 20 Greatest Athletes Now • 3rd (Bronze), Winter X Games 2005 (Slopestyle) • 2nd, X-Trail Jam, Tokyo, Japan (Quarterpipe) • 3rd, X-Trail Jam, Tokyo, Japan (Straight Jump) • 1st, US Snowboard Grandprix, Breckenridge, Co (Rails) • 2nd, US Snowboard Grandprix, Breckenridge, Co (Halfpipe) • 8th, US Snowboard Grandprix Season End Ranking (Halfpipe) • 10th, X Games 2005 (Superpipe) • 2nd, Abominable Snow Jam, Mount Hood, Oregon (Quarterpipe) • 3rd, Abominable Snow Jam, Mount Hood, Oregon (Slopestyle)
2003–2004 • TransWorld Rider of the Year (2004) • Ticket To Ride (TTR) World Snowboard Tour – Quarterpipe Champion (2003/2004) • 1st, Arctic Challenge, Trysilfjellet, Norway (Quarterpipe Overall) • 9th, Arctic Challenge, Trysilfjellet, Norway (Slopestyle) • 1st, Boost Mobile Pro-Jam (Rail) • 1st, Boost Mobile Pro-Jam • 4th, Winter X Games 2003 (Slopestyle) • 21st, Winter X Games 2003 (Superpipe) • 1st, Abominable Snow Jam (Slopestyle) • 1st, Abominable Snow Jam (Quarterpipe) • 1st, Grand Prix, Breckenridge, Co. (Rail) • 1st, X-Rail Jam Tokyodome 2003 (Jam Session) • 1st, US Open Rail Jam • 1st, The Session, Vail, Co. (Rail) • 4th, The Session, Vail, Co. (Slopestyle) • 1st, Montana Christchurch Big Air, New Zealand
2002–2003 • 1st (Gold), Winter X-Games, 2002 (Slopestyle) • Ticket To Ride (TTR) World Snowboard Tour – Quarterpipe Champion (2002/2003) • 3rd, Vans Triple Crown Series, Snow Summit, California (Slopestyle) • 4th, World Championships, Vail, Co. (Slopestyle) • 1st, Yahoo Big Air, Breckenridge, Co. (Big Air) • 7th, US Grand Prix, Mount Bachelor, Oregon (Halfpipe) • 9th, Vans Triple Crown (Season End, Overall) ==Video parts==