Annapolis, MD.—Naval Academy Director of Athletics Chet Gladchuk retired after 24 years as president of the Naval Academy Athletic Association and director of athletics. Gladchuk is currently the second longest sports director in the FBS.
“Since the day when the opportunity to represent the United States Naval Academy has been extended to us over 24 years ago, Kathy and I have been attached to his unreserved mission and with the greatest sense of responsibility and privileges,” said Gladchuk. “In addition, the many men and women who are or will be ancients motivated us every day not to hear ourselves while waiting to continue excellence in all the dimensions of our service. Our association was our passion and having made a personal and professional investment devoted to our life that this academy is a vocation, we have always cherished our trip in finesse for the two coaches, the staff, the partners and the friends who have the most sincere at the end of the final of the final, the final, the partner, the associates, the friends and the friends who have the end of the coaches, the partners, with partners and friends. days of our 50 -year career in athletics. “”
“Our deepest appreciation in Chet & Kathy for their many years of service devoted to our mission and, above all, to tens of thousands of aspirants,” said the admiral director of the Yvette Davids naval academy, USN. “We have appreciated many wonderful achievements due to the leadership of Chet – NAAA and the Academy are better for this. It has exceptionally positioned us well for the future because of its fair winds and our following seas, and we will be forever grateful for their excellence and our excellence and our excellence to the mutual aid they have done for the Naval Academy and our country in the way in which physics at Entraid Mission. ”
Gladchuk supervised the most successful era in the history of the athletics of the navy because he saw the aspirants of navy winning four national championships, 251 conference titles, producing 352 All-Americans, 139 academic All-Americans, 12 trophies in chief and 16 Bowl games.
The current Navy sequence of 10 cup titles of the Cup of Presidents of the Patriot League is the most competitive is the most in the history of the Patriot League and Navy has finished first or second in the past 17 years. Over the past 10 years, Navy has won 84 Patriot League conference championships with the next school closest to the league at 38. The mediums have dominated their greatest rival, Army, above the mandate of Gladchuk, winning the Star series 21 times in the past 23 years. On the academic level, aspiring students have excelled in class and are annually one of the country’s best programs for the success rate of graduation.
Since Gladchuk has been director of athletics, Navy has added six university sports to give Navy 36 university sports teams, tied with Stanford and Ohio State for the most in the Bowl football subdivision.
Gladchuk’s efforts have been recognized at the national level. He received the John L. Toner Prize from the National Football Foundation temple, which recognizes an athletics director who has demonstrated higher administrative capacities and has shown exceptional dedication to university athletics.
Gladchuk also received the Bobby Dodd Athletic Director of the Year Award Prize. This national prize is awarded in recognition of the support and commitment of a sports director towards the successful advancement of intercollegial athletics.
He was recognized by the secretary of the Navy for his contributions and his services to the Navy and the Naval Academy with the higher price of the public service in the Marine Department. He was rewarded by Commodore Barry Distinguished Citizens Award by the Navy League, was president of the I athletic Directors Association division and was a member of the prestigious committee of the elimination series of the I FBS division.
After 134 years as an independent of football, Gladchuk was recognized for having designed the move to the American Athletic Conference, which obtained the future of naval football as the FBS national stature program for the years to come.
The initial impact of Gladchuk on the Naval Academy was the renovation of $ 80 million in the Mavy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. He received the Green Star Award by the City of Annapolis for his commitment to the environment and the district during the current renovation of the commemorative stadium of the Marine body of the Navy.
Gladchuk and NAAA also joined the Naval Academy Foundation to collect private funds for physical mission installations on and outside the courtyard. In the past decade, more than $ 200 million private dollars have been collected in support of installation projects in support of the physical mission and intercollegial athletics. In addition, as a non -profit commercial entity 501C3, and under the leadership of Gladchuk, the Naval Academy Athletic Association has generated non -governmental annual operational financing to support 36 university sports programs, provide coaches and staff and operating and maintenance expenses for the main sports facilities. During the mandate of Gladchuk, more than a billion dollars were generated outside with non -appropriate funding to support the annual operating budget.
Gladchuk has been strongly involved in many NCAA, American Athletic Conference and Patriot League committees. He was selected to sit on the NCAA leadership council, the NACDA Executive Committee (National Association of Collegial Sports Directors) and was president of the Executive Committee of the Patriot League and member of the NCAA Olympic Sports Liaison Committee. Currently, he remains president of the Naval Academy Golf Association and recently headed a capital campaign to successfully finish a renovation of $ 10 million from the establishment leading to a national ranking among the first 15 as a college course.
Gladchuk came to the Naval Academy of the University of Houston, where he had been director of athletics for four years.
Before Houston, Gladchuk was director of intercollegial athletics, intramural and leisure for eight years at his Alma Mater, Boston College.
Before joining Boston College, Gladchuk was advertising at the University of Tulane from 1987 to 1980.
Gladchuk gave letters of three years in football to Boston College and graduated with distinction in business management in 1973. He obtained a master’s degree in sports administration from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 1974.
The Naval Academy Athletic Association will start national research and the candidate selected will assume responsibilities for a timely transition.
Gladchuk will remain involved in fixed assets for the benefit and support of the physical mission if necessary.
