Coach Chapman is in his fourth year at Issaquah, now as head coach of the junior varsity squad after one season as an assistant. ... Coach Chap and his wife, Della, recently relocated from Huntington Beach, California to Issaquah. Married for 39 years, with two sons and 3 grandsons, Chap retired after working for 42 years in the home building and land development business... Chap attended Arcadia High School and graduated from the University of Southern California in 1974. In 1985, Chap began coaching his son in T-Ball. Coaching continued thru all the leagues for both sons thru the late 1990s when Chap Incorporated a nonprofit company to run the first feeder baseball club in Southern California. The Charger Baseball Club was made up of 12 and 13-year-old players who would be attending Edison High School... In 2001, Chap was hired to coach JV Team at Edison HS by Coach Matt Mosiello. That year Edison won the Southern Section CIF Division 1 Championship at Dodger Stadium. In 2007, Coach Benji Medure recruited Chap away from Edison to be the JV head coach at Huntington Beach HS where he just completed his 13th year in 2020. During his tenure at HBHS, the Oilers made the playoffs every year and finally won a Southern Section CIF title in 2015 having lost in the final in 2013. HBHS was rated number one in the Country in the preseason poll of 2017 and is a nationally renown public high school baseball program that is frequently in the National Top 25 Baseball Poll... Chap prides himself on coaching up young players so that they are ready to step into a Varsity position and play to their highest personal ability. Many players have been drafted into the MLB in addition to the average of 15 players per year getting college opportunities to play from the Community College level up to Division 1. Being a roll model and mentor to young men who play baseball makes his day.