One talented driver on the cusp of winning something big, Chad enjoyed his finest season in 2024 placing fifth overall in the World Standings. He qualified for three championship final heats at the Grande Prairie Stompede, the Battle of the North, and for the third consecutive year at the season ending Century Downs “WINNER’S ZONE” Series at the Wild West World Chuckwagon Finals in Ponoka. He recorded thirty-three top ten runs including three first place runs and fifteen additional runs that also placed inside the top five, and had top ten overall aggregate finishes at seven of ten shows that he competed at in 2024. For the third consecutive year he had a horse named to the WPCA’s Equine Outfit of Excellence, and for the first time he had a horse named to the Calgary Stampede’s Equine Athlete of Excellence.
Chad won his first show as a river at the Dewberry World Chuckwagon races in 2023, the Orville Strandquist Memorial Award for Top Rookie Driver at the 2015 Calgary Stampede, was the WPCA Top Rookie Driver in 2013. He is a two-time recipient of the WPCA’s Most Improved Driver Award, and has had three horses named to the WPCA’s Equine Outfit of Excellence, and one to the Calgary Stampede’s Equine Athlete of Excellence. As an outrider, Chad was the World Champion Outrider in 2012, was part of two Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby Championship outfits, three Calgary Stampede Aggregate winners, was the WPCA’s Top Rookie Outrider in 2005 and twice received the Rod Glass Memorial Award symbolic of the WPCA’s Most Improved Outrider.
Chad is a 4th generation chuckwagon competitor, whose great-grandfather Wilbur David and grandfather Ron David are former drivers, he is the younger brother to fellow driver Jordie Fike, and his mother Dona is a former WPCA chuckwagon judge. Chad and his wife Catlin have two children – Racin and Ryden – and make their home in Cremona, Alberta in the off season. Chad is the owner/operator of Arrow Inspections – a home inspection company in the off season.
