ELECTED: NOVEMBER 2006 INDUCTED: NOVEMBER 2007

SCOTTSDALE, AZ DAYTONA BEACH, FL

FIRST JOINING THE USSSA IN 1980 AS AN AREA DIRECTOR, HE WAS APPOINTED AS THE KENTUCKY STATE YOUTH AND WOMEN’S DIRECTOR IN 1986. IN 1990 HE WAS APPOINTED CO-STATE DIRECTOR WITH ED WILLIAMS AND IN 1998 TOOK THE POSITION ON HIS OWN WITH ED’S RETIREMENT.

IN 1988 CHUCK WAS NAMED THE GREAT LAKES DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR AND IN 1999 HE RECEIVED THE COVETED PRESIDENT’S AWARD.

HE HOSTED AND DIRECTED THE FOLLOWING WORLD TOURNAMENTS: 1984 GIRL’S SLOW PITCH 18-UNDER, 1994 GIRL’S SLOW PITCH 12&UNDER, 2001 MEN’S 45-OVER & WOMEN’S 35-OVER, 2002 WOMEN’S CLASS “C”, 2002 MILITARY, AND 2003 WOMEN’S CLASS “A” WORLD SERIES. ADDITIONALLY, HE HAS HOSTED OVER 50 NATIONAL INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENTS, OVER 40 STATE TOURNAMENTS, AND MORE THAN 10 NATIONAL & REGIONAL TOURNAMENTS. HE SERVED AS A DIRECTOR AT THE FIRST THREE SUPER SERIES WEEKENDS AT DISNEY’S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS.

CHUCK IS PERHAPS BEST KNOWN THROUGHOUT THE ASSOCIATION FOR HIS HIGH PROFILE POSITION AS THE MASTER OF CEREMONIES FOR THE ANNUAL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION CEREMONIES, A POSITION HELD FROM 1994 THROUGH 2007. WITH HIS CALM DEMEANOR AND ELOQUENT DELIVERY HE EFFORTLESSLY GUIDED SPEAKERS AND INDUCTEES THROUGH VARIOUS STAGES OF THE INDUCTION PROCESS. ALWAYS A TRUE PROFESSIONAL. HIS ABSENCE WILL NOT GO WITHOUT NOTICE.