World Professional Standings
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Major Awards And Victories
2005: WPCA Top Rookie Outrider
2006: Rod Glass Memorial Award (Most Improved Outrider), Calgary Stampede Aggregate Champion Outrider
2007: Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby Champion Outrider, Calgary Stampede Aggregate Champion Outrider
2009: Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby Champion Outrider
2011: Rod Glass Memorial Award (Most Improved Outrider)
2012: WORLD CHAMPION OUTRIDER
2013: WPCA Top Rookie Driver
2014: Calgary Stampede Aggregate Champion Outrider
2015: Orville Strandquist Memorial Award (Calgary Stampede Top Rookie Driver)
2016: Herman Flad Memorial Award (WPCA Most Improved Driver)
2022: Herman Flad Memorial Award (WPCA Most Improved Driver), WPCA Equine Outfit of Excellence - "ROCCO" - Champion Right Wheeler
Personal Information
One of the most talented all-around athletes in professional chuckwagon racing today, Chad was the was the recipient of the Herman Flad Memorial Award as the WPCA’s Most Improved Driver for the second time in his career in 2022, had a horse named to the WPCA Equine Outfit of Excellence, and his 6th place finish in the World Standings was a career best. 2022 saw Chad post 22 top ten runs, including eight first place runs and nine runs hat also placed inside the top five. Championship final heat qualifications at the Grande Prairie Stompede, Medicine Hat Stampede, and the Century Downs "WINNER'S ZONE" Championship were among his seven top ten overall finishes on the 2023 WPCA Pro Tour.
Chad won the Orville Strandquist Memorial Award for Top Rookie Driver at the 2015 Calgary Stampede, was the WPCA Top Rookie Driver in 2013, and qualified for the Rangeland Derby’s “Semi Final Saturday” in 2019. Chad made his debut as a chuckwagon driver in 2012 in Grande Prairie on the Western Chuckwagon Association (WCA) circuit in 2012 and qualified for the championship final heat. At the WCA’s final show of the 2012 season in Dawson Creek, Chad again qualified for the championship final heat.
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, and was the WPCA’s Top Rookie Outrider in 2005.
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 runs the hockey rink in Cremona and enjoys dirt biking, basketball, & golfing.
