COLORADO CHAOS PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER
DAVID MATTHEWS
David Matthews is the President and Founder of the Colorado Chaos Basketball Club, Inc., one of the largest and most respected AAU programs in the nation. Matthews, who graduated from Colorado State University with a degree in History with a double minor in Journalism and Political Science, was one of the youngest people in the history of the state of Colorado to be a President of a non-profit organization when he founded the Colorado Chaos in 2000. He is widely regarded as the premier basketball mind in the entire Rocky Mountain Region and one of the biggest advocates and hardest workers for the promotion of Colorado prep basketball you will find. Through the years, hundreds of college coaches and scouts have come to count on his expertise concerning Colorado prep basketball.
The Colorado Chaos Basketball Club is the premier AAU program in the Rocky Mountain Region with a total of fifteen elite boy’s teams, ranging in age from 13-17. Over the past eight years Colorado Chaos teams have produced an un-paralleled 217 college athletes, 57 of whom are playing at the Division I level and two whom are playing in the N.B.A. To date, Colorado Chaos players have earned roughly seven million dollars in scholarship money towards achieving their higher education. Colorado Chaos teams have played in seventeen different states and every continental U.S. time zone in order to obtain exposure with college coaches and gain valuable experience playing against the top competition in the country. The Colorado Chaos also places a huge emphasis on player development and offers countless individual and small group workout sessions designed to improve players overall skill level. The Colorado Chaos is one of the most respected AAU programs in the country by college coaches and scouts. The program is one of only four programs in the Mountain Time Zone, and the only Colorado program, to be ranked as one of the top 75 AAU programs in the country each of the past six years, including finishing the 2008 season ranked 22nd in the country and the 2009 season ranked 37th in the country. To date, the program has won ten major national tournament titles, including six in the past two years. The Colorado Chaos is also the only AAU program in the region to be affiliated with Reebok Grassroots Basketball.
In addition to the Colorado Chaos, Matthews runs the premier events in the region, including the Rocky Mountain Fall Showcase all star games, Top of the Rockies and Colorado Elite Eight tournaments and the Colorado Elite Camp, Colorado Fall Shootout camps and Colorado Chaos Challenge Games. The Rocky Mountain Fall Showcase all star games have become the biggest single event in the state and attract over 1,000 spectators and countless college coaches and scouts annually. The Top of the Rockies is the premier AAU tournament in the region and the only tournament that has gained recognition in some of the nation’s top basketball publications and last year’s Top of the Rockies tournament was the largest tournament in Colorado history.
Matthews also writes for various websites and scouting services, including Prep Colorado, Prep West Hoops, Colorado Preps and West Coast Hoops Report. He has also been published countless times in national and regional publications, including the Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, Colorado Springs Gazette, Pueblo Chieftan, Fort Collins Coloradoan, Cheyenne Eagle, Scout Hoops, Rivals, HoopMasters and PrepChamp, amongst many others. Matthews is also a featured guest on the Colorado Preps radio network and Prep Colorado during the high school basketball season with weekly interviews and blogs about some of the top performers in the state and he was featured in a coffee table book about some of Colorado’s most influential people in the lives of children. In addition, Matthews publishes the Rocky Mountain Hoop Report, a one of a kind subscription only publication for college coaches and basketball fans covering Colorado and Wyoming prep basketball with roughly one hundred subscribers.
DAVID MATTHEWS
COLORADO CHAOS COACHING STAFF
2011 COACHING STAFF WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON