A concurrent RESOLUTION

 

To request the Department of Transportation name the portion of United States Highway 501 from its intersection with Medlen Parkway to its intersection with Mill Pond Road in the City of Conway in Horry County "Chuck Jordan Highway" and place appropriate signs or markers at this location containing these words.

 

Whereas, a towering figure in Horry County sports, Coach Chuck Jordan was born to rule the turf. Since 1979, he has been involved in all things sports during a coaching career that spanned decades and has received awards and honors befitting his storied profession; and

 

Whereas, to prepare for his career, Jordan earned a bachelor's degree cum laude from Presbyterian College in 1979, where he also was captain of the football team in 1978. He later earned a master's degree in administration in 1985, and a master's plus thirty credit hours in athletic administration in 2007, both from the University of South Carolina; and

 

Whereas, he coached football and baseball at Richland Northeast High School for two years and served as assistant football and head track coach at Presbyterian College, leaving in May of 1983 for what would be the start of a legendary career at Conway High School; and

 

Whereas, from May 1983 to June 2017, Jordan was athletic director and head football coach at Conway High School where he consistently led the Tigers to winning seasons, posting a record of two hundred eighty-seven winning games in thirty-four seasons. While Jordan and the Tigers never won a state championship, they came close finishing second in the state four times; and

 

Whereas, as director of the Conway High School Athletic Foundation, Jordan initiated a $1.3 million athletic improvement campaign to build new football, softball, and track facilities, considered one of the finest high school athletic complexes in the State; and

 

Whereas, for his excellence, Coach Jordan received the Region V/VI Division AAAA Coach of the Year award eleven times from 1984 to 2008, was the South Carolina Division AAAA Coach of the Year in 1995, the Carolina Panthers North Carolina/South Carolina Coach of the Year for community involvement in 2002, and the Division AAAA Lower State Coach of the Year in 2006; and

 

Whereas, lifetime coaching achievement honors include his 2016 induction into the Fellowship of Christians Hall of Champions, and induction into the South Carolina Football Coaches Hall of Fame as well as the South Carolina Athletic Administrators Hall of Fame, both in 2018; and

 

Whereas, Coach Jordan was vice president of the South Carolina Division AAAA Athletic Directors in 1986 and became its president in 1987, was assistant football coach in 1994 and 2003 for the North/South All Star Game in Myrtle Beach, assistant football coach for the 1997 NCAA Division II All Star Game (The Snow Bowl) held in Fargo, North Dakota, and was assistant football coach in 1999 and head coach in 2011 for the Shrine Bowl; and

 

Whereas, Coach Chuck Jordan has spent a lifetime helping to administer and develop Conway's football history for decades. His talents and achievements both on and off the field are a reflection of the kind of man he is. It is therefore only fitting and proper that he is paid tribute with a portion of highway in the City of Conway named in his honor. Now, therefore,

 

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

 

That the members of the South Carolina General Assembly, by this resolution, request the Department of Transportation name the portion of United States Highway 501 from its intersection with Medlen Parkway to its intersection with Mill Pond Road in the City of Conway in Horry County "Chuck Jordan Highway" and place appropriate signs or markers at this location containing these words.

 

Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the Department of Transportation.

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