Chuck Williams is a Recreation Aquatic Supervisor for the City of Omaha Parks & Recreation Department and a member of the Omaha Aquatics Team. He and his teammates won the prestigious National Excellence in Aquatics Award in 2003 and again in 2008.  He has also served as board member on the National Aquatic Council.
   

Chuck grew up in Corpus Christ, Texas (Padre Island), and has been around water all his life.  He became a lifeguard at the age of 16 and in junior high school he was a competitive swimmer and platform diver. After he entered high school he worked as a beach lifeguard on Padre Island for two summers. 

     

He re-entered Aquatics in 1992 and became certified as an American Red Cross Lifeguard Instructor and a National Pool & Spa Operator. During the summer, he and his teammates oversee the operation and management of 19 swimming pools throughout Omaha. 

   
In 2002 he and Andrew O’Grady developed a lifeguard competition event designed to show case Omaha lifeguards to the public.  Today the competition has expanded statewide and hosts the best lifeguards in the state.