University of Findlay

Coaching basketball has proven to be a successful career choice for Charlie Parker. As an assistant at BGSU, he helped lead the team to one MAC championship, as well as two second place finishes and one NIT appearance. As an assistant at FC, he was also the head track and cross country coach. While in that position, Charlie was named HBCC Cross Country Coach of the Year, NAIA Regional Track and Field Coach of the Year and was twice named NAIA District Track and Field Coach of the Year. His largest number of successes come as head varsity men’s basketball coach at Wayne State University. Under Charlie’s leadership, the teams earned numerous GLIAC titles or runner up positions; appeared in three NCAA-II National Championships; set school records in a number of areas and had many players honored at the conference, district and regional levels. Charlie was twice named GLIAC Coach of the Year and as the Michigan 1984 Coach of the Year. He is currently an associate basketball coach at the University of Southern California. As an athlete at Findlay College, Charlie was named in both the HBCC All-Conference and the NAIA All-District basketball teams; set both school and conference hurdle records and was one of only five athletes to participate in two national championships in the same year. He was also active in various campus organizations and named to the Dean’s List, “Who’s Who” and “Outstanding College Athlete of the United States.”