He is a former varsity high school basketball and baseball player at Farmington High School who went on to graduate from Springfield College with a B.S. in Movement and Sports studies and minor in Health Education. Coach Chaves has over ten years of high school coaching experience. Coaching baseball at Hall High School and Windsor Locks High School. He was most recently an assistant basketball coach for Lewis S. Mills High School and the Head Coach of the Granby Memorial High School Boys Basketball team. He has coached and directed numerous summer camps for students of all ages.