AURORA — Thirty-seven years in education and athletics will be enough for Chuck Howell.
The 59-year-old assistant commissioner at the Colorado High School Activities Association will retire next month.
“I don’t have any definite plans,” Howell said. “But I’ve been doing it for a long time, and the opportunity was there (to retire) to take advantage of it.”
Howell spent 22 years in Arizona before moving on to Central (Grand Junction), then Kent Denver in Cherry Hills Village.
He will complete his sixth year with the CHSAA when his contract expires June 30.
Given credit for reorganizing the upper classifications of the basketball tournament when it was priced out of the Pepsi Center and overseeing switches to new playoff brackets, Howell said he feels “very good about what we’ve been able to do as well as with the selection committee.”
A panel that offers true seeding to the tournament has watched thousands of games the past few years.
Howell also has been active with soccer, among multiple duties running various state- sponsored programs.
Howell is the second CHSAA assistant to leave this school year. Earlier, Tara McIntyre moved to Pennsylvania. She was replaced by Bethany Schott, an 11-time letter winner at Overland.
“It’s tough to walk away,” Howell said.
Neil H. Devlin, The Denver Post
