Charles B. "Chuck" Greene

Charles (Chuck) B. Greene (born 1957 in Athens, Ohio) is a 1976 graduate of Detroit-Mackenzie High School. Greene later worked as an Announcer/Director for (CBS affiliate) WKZO-TV while earning a Bachelor's Degree in Communications from Western Michigan University. At WMU, Greene made the improbable progression from walk-on track and field athlete, to three-year letter winner and team captain.

Greene was twice the Mid-American Conference bronze medalist in the javelin throw (1979 & 1980); in 1981, Chuck won the Central Collegiate Conference title. By virtue of his eighth place finish at the 1981 National Collegiate Championships, Greene was named to the NCAA All-American Team; he is the only non-scholarship athlete in WMU history to win that honor. Chuck Greene threw the javelin at the 1981 and 1986 USOC National Sports Festival; he also competed at the USA Track and Field Championships (1981-1984 & 1986).The highlight of Chuck Greene's track and field career would come in 1985, with a gold medal at the Twelfth World Maccabiah Games in Tel Aviv, Israel

In 1987, after several years in commercial television, Greene accepted a field sales position with the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation. During the late 1990s, Chuck Greene earned his teaching credentials and Master's Degree through Antioch University's McGregor School of Education. Greene's Master's publication, "Inherit the Count" (2003), focuses on the City of Detroit and its public schools during the second-half of the twentieth century.

Chuck Greene remains active in the sport of javelin throwing; since 1996 he has consistently ranked at or near the top among United States Masters athletics performers.

References

* [http://www.bringbacktrack.com/History/Tribute_Project/All_Americans.html WMU Men's Track Tribute]
* [http://web1.ncaa.org/ncaa/eventlist.do?championship=700041&athlete=706443&division=700041700041 NCAA Individual Event Results]
* [http://209.34.120.67/front/asp/bio.aspx?tid=444 Fairmont High School Teacher Web Pages]
* [http://www.masterstrack.com Masters Track & Field USA Rankings]
* [http://www.indianainvaders.com/releases/01/01_club_championship/day2res.htm 2001 USATF Club Championships]
* [http://www.usatf.org/events/2006/USATFClubTFChampionships/history.asp 2002, 03, 04 USATF Club Championships]