Chad graduated from LeMars High School in 1992 and continued his wrestling career at Westmar University. He was a four year starter at 285 for Westmar, three year team captain, 4X NAIA qualifier and in 1996 was an All-American placing 6th. Chad is 10th on the All-Time Wins list at Westmar.

Chad was the varsity assistant coach at Waukee from 2001-2004 and then became the head coach until 2021. He then was the head coach at Waukee Northwest from 2021-2025 and started the Wolfpack Wrestling Club.

Chad had a career record of 256-191. It took him six years to get a .500 record season. In his first 11 years he was 99-138, but continued to grow the program, and in his last 11 years his record was 157-53. Chad has had 110 state qualifiers 61 state place winners and 11 State champions. State dual finished in 2018- 2nd, 2019- 6th, 2020- 3rd, 2021- 2nd, 2022- 2nd, 2023- 6th, and 2025- 3rd. In the traditinal tournament, he had 9 top 10, 3 runner ups and 4 top six. In 2017, Chad was a 3A Central District Coach of the Year, and in 2018, the Iowa 3A Coach of the Year. As a teacher and coach at Waukee for 26 years, Chad feels he was fortunate to build a program. He started out with 20 wrestlers and two coaches and built the program to 82+ wrestlers and 6 contracted coaches along with 5 volunteers. His first year they won three meets and had one qualifier for the state tournament. From that time forward, the program never looked back.

Chad is very proud that his wrestlers graduate from high school and go on to attend college or go into the workforce. Chad and his coaching staff preach to their athletes to "chase our best wrestling rather than wins and focus on having full hearts and clear minds in order to find our best selves and succeed in spite of adversity, rather than fail because of it."

In the coming school year, Chad will be an Assistant Principal at Waukee Northwest. He and his wife Jami have two children Drew (20) and Isaac (19).