Chris has spent his entire life involved in sport, having played, worked with and alongside side some of our country’s elite amateur and professional athletes and coaches.
He is currently entering his seventh year at McMaster University. His current roles include: Varsity Clinic Manager where he helps coordinate medical coverage for all of Mac’s Varsity teams; Head Therapist, for Football and Supervisor of the Sport medicine programs sixty Student Field Therapists whom provide field coverage for twenty-nine of McMaster’s Varsity and Club teams.
Prior to McMaster, Chris worked in the Canadian Football League for seventeen years. His professional career began with the Toronto Argonauts, as the Assistant Athletic Therapist, where he worked for three seasons (1994-1996). In 1997, Chris was appointed Head Athletic Therapist with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats where he spent the next fourteen seasons (1997-2010) before joining Mac.
In his role as Athletic Therapist Chris has participated in seven National Championships, and has been fortunate enough to have been on the winning side four times: the Grey Cup winning 1996 Toronto Argonauts, the 1999 Hamilton Tiger-Cats, the 2011 Vanier Cup Champion McMaster Marauders and the 2014 CIS Champion McMaster Women’s Rugby team.
Chris started his Hockey training and coaching back in the early 1980’s while playing in the NOHA. In 1986, he was awarded the Norman Brier Memorial award for Outstanding Contributions to Walden Minor Hockey.
In 1989-90 Chris Captained the Rayside Balfour Canadians of the Northern Ontario Junior ‘A’ Hockey League and was awarded Team MVP. The following year he was named an Assistant Coach with the Canadians and in 1991-92 he became Head Coach. At 22 years of age, Chris became the youngest Junior Head Coach in Canada. He was selected Head Coach of the West All Stars and voted Second Team Head Coach at the season’s end.
Having been focussed on academics and then his professional career, Chris returned to the rink in 2008. He has helped out at different age groups throughout that time period, coaching and training at Chedoke, with the Hamilton Huskies and last year helped with the Ancaster Avalanche ‘AA’ Minor Peewees.
Chris has Select experience, serving as Head Coach of the Chedoke Atoms in 2013-14 and most recently as an Assistant with the 2016-17 Chedoke Bantams.