coachchuck@swimdorval.ca
Chuck is a level 3 NCCP coach and has been coaching professionally since retiring from swimming in 1988. In his 25 years of professional coaching, Chuck was the age group coach for the Pointe Claire Swim Club for 2 years before taking on the Head Age Group Coach role with Etobicoke Swimming in 1990. He was named the Head Coach of Etobicoke in 1997 before taking on the General Manager and Marketing Director positions for ESWIM in 1999.
After retiring from coaching in 2001, Chuck came back to coach for 4 years with the Region of Waterloo Swim Club in 2004. In 2008, Chuck founded Club Warriors. He continue as Head Coach of CW until 2014 when he retired for a 2nd time.
Chuck has been assistant coach of Provincial and National teams to California and Sweden as well as Head Coach of Provincial and National Teams to Montreal and Italy. He was also the Head Coach of the 1997 Ontario Canada Games Team.
Some of Chuck's highlights include having coached two swimmers to the podium in the 1998 Commonwealth Games. He has coached swimmers to nine different National Age Group Relay Records, coached swimmers to the top 10 in TAG over 250 times as well as led Etobicoke to 8 straight Provincial Age Group Championships and to six 1st place finishes in the National Age Group Team Rankings. In 1998 Chuck received Ontario's Coach of the Year Award for the 13-14 year old girls age group. In 2011,
Chuck led Club Warriors to the Ontario Small Team High Point Award at the Long Course Provincial Championships. He also led CW to the DIV 2 Team Championship Banner in 2012.
Chuck has now taken on the challenge of leading the Dorval Swim Club.
Chuck has 4 daughters who all have swam or currently swim competitively in Ontario. Chuck is the President and CEO of ORANGEBLACK Software, a software development firm located in Waterloo, Ontario.
ORANGEBLACK has close ties to the Swimming community, having developed systems for Swimming Canada and the Canadian Swim Coaches Association as well as developed Streamline Sport, a sport club management system.