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Coach: Basketball, Cross Country
Running,
Track & Field, Fastball, Volleyball
14 Provincial Championships
25 Zone Championships
Founder Wetaskiwin Minor Basketball Association
 Chuck
Hebert moved to Wetaskiwin in 1996 to teach high school Physical
Education at Wetaskiwin Composite High School. With that assignment
came the responsibility to act as the school’s Athletic Director,
recruiting and supporting coaches within the Wetaskiwin Composite High
School Athletic Program. During Chuck's nineteen-year tenure at WCHS
students/teams have won over twenty Provincial Championships. Chuck
himself was coach or assistant coach in five different sports and won
fourteen Provincial Championships and twenty-five zone championships.
Chuck also founded the Wetaskiwin Minor Basketball Association. His
considerable involvement in high school sports and community recreation
along with his coaching successes make Chuck more than deserving of
induction into the Wetaskiwin and County Sports Hall of Fame.
Championship Titles
Difficult to Replicate
in Twenty-one Years of Coaching
At WCHS Chuck coached
track and field, cross country running, volleyball, and basketball. He
coached track and field for sixteen years (1996-2012), cross country
running for twelve years (2000-2012), basketball for thirteen years
(1996-2012), and volleyball for six years (1997-1999 and 2010-2012).
Cumulatively, these teams won twenty-five zone championships. From
2000-2004 Chuck was the assistant coach for the Cross Country Running
Team when they won five Provincial Championships. In 2005 Chuck took
over the head coaching duties and won seven more Provincial Titles.
Additionally, in 2011-12 Chuck coached the Track and Field Team to a
Provincial Championship.
 In total Chuck coached his WCHS teams to
thirteen Provincial Championships, an incredible record for a high
school coach. Chuck’s Boys Volleyball team reached the Provincials in
1999 and 2012. In 1999 they won the silver medal. As coach of the
Senior Girls Basketball team, the girls won the Central Alberta Zone
Championships six consecutive years from 2004 - 2009. All zone
championships qualified the girl’s basketball teams to compete at the
Provincial Championships. They lost in the zone finals in 2010 and 2011
and then won another zone championship in 2012. 2012 was indeed a banner
year for Chuck as the three teams he was coaching at WCHS won two
provincial titles and a zone championship, another laudable
achievement! 2012 was also the year that Chuck transferred from WCHS to
Ecole Queen Elizabeth Junior High School. However, he continued to coach
at WCHS until 2015. In
recognition of his Coaching and sports building achievements, Chuck was
inducted into the Alberta High Schools Sports Hall of Fame in 2015.
All in all, Chuck’s record
at WCHS was nothing
short of amazing and an accomplishment that will be more than difficult
to replicate!
Five Sports,
Multi-Season
Winning History in Five Sports
Besides coaching at the
high school level, Chuck also found time in the spring and summer to
coach girl’s fastball. As a team, he and his wife Lilly, coached their
two daughters' Wetaskiwin Community Fastball Teams for six years from
2010 to 2015. In Provincial Tournaments three teams were successful in
winning medals. In 2012 their U10 team won the gold medal, their U12
team won the bronze medal in 2013 and in 2015 their U14 team won the
silver medal. Not surprisingly, Chuck’s winning history was also
augmented with community teams.
Aside from his extensive
coaching successes Chuck has proven to be a true “sports builder” as he
was founder of the Wetaskiwin Minor Basketball Association (WMBA). In
2001, using his community contacts and members of the WCHS Senior Boys
and Girls Basketball Teams, he initiated a youth basketball program for
youngsters from grades four through six, thereby giving elementary
school aged children an opportunity to learn the sport. The first year
some sixty-five local youth took advantage of the program which has
grown to a league of about 300 youngsters and now includes children from
grades one through six.
Lasting Footprint in
Sports Community
Through Mentorship and Volunteerism
Of particular note is
Chuck’s mentorship of high school athletes who are encouraged to “give
back” to the community through sports by volunteering to coach or
referee in the WMBA. Over the length of the program some 200+
individual high school athletes have become involved.
It is a rare occasion when
one person comes into a community and leaves such a footprint in the
community sport realm. Chuck has done just that; a winning provincial
and zone championship coach, a sport program founder and builder
boasting very healthy participation and a great mentor teaching our
adolescent youth the value and importance of volunteerism and “giving
back”. We appreciate and applaud the countless hours of volunteer
effort that Chuck has so willingly given to our young people.
Congratulations Chuck on your induction into the Wetaskiwin and County
Sports Hall of Fame, you are indeed a credit to our community.
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