Message from Danielle

I was 13 years old when Chuck and I met. He was a skateboarding friend of my older brother, Eric. Over the years we would run into each other, touch base, hang out a bit and then lose track of each other again. I feel so honored, fortunate, straight up lucky to have been his girlfriend for the last three months of his life. A mutual friend told me Chuck had shared with him that we had “finally found each other, again!” While my heart is broken with his passing, I believe we were meant to spend that time together. We did a lot of biking together. I’m grateful to him for introducing me to the sport and to the amazing people I’ve met because of him. Chuck touched so many people’s lives in such deep and meaningful ways. I’m happy to be counted among them. I miss him so much. I struggle every day with the loss of his life, as I know we all are.