Dick Glass, along with Mark Hammersmith, are the proud owners and coaches of the Chicago Force Hockey Team. Dick not only has coached for many years but in his younger days was himself on Junior Hockey Teams. He played with the Chicago Nordiques Junior A, the St. Cloud MN Junior A and the U.S. Junior National Team. Unfortunately, a spinal injury from hockey curtailed the rest of his hockey playing days.

To fill the void left after retiring from playing hockey, Dick began coaching all ages of youth hockey at the Northwest Chargers in Rolling Meadows. Dick coached at the Chargers for almost 23 years at all different age levels from mites to midgets. His last 2 years with the Chargers were spent coaching the Central States Midget Major team. Some of his players had moved up to playing on the Chicago Force, now have moved on to play in college. While Dick was coaching at the Chargers, he also coached the St. Viator High School Team.

In addition to his coaching duties, Dick has served on numerous committees associated with hockey. He was the President of the Northwest Chargers Hockey Organization which started in 1985. What began with a total of 6 teams, grew under Dick's leadership to 22 teams with over 350 players. Dick was also the President of the Central States Developmental Hockey League. The CSDHL is an elite Tier II league in the Midwest comprised of 65 teams. From 1996-2002 Dick was on the AHAI (Amateur Hockey Association of Illinois) Board serving on many committees such as Rules and Ethics, Player Development, Hich School Committee and many others. He was the General Manager of the 2000 Illinois Showcase Team and went on to be the USA Hockey Team Leader of the Central District Select 17's.

Dick resides in Gurnee, Illinois where he owns and operates Gold's Gym. He has a son, Jason and a daughter, Jenna.

Mark Hammersmith hails from the Chicagoland area, growing up on the Northwest side of Chicago. He resides in Palatine with his wife Debbie, their son Mark Jr. and their daughter Nicole, who attends Western Michigan University. Mark works for Hertz Equipment Rental out of McCormick Place in Chicago.

Mark has been very active in the hockey community for over 2 decades. Prior to forming the Chicago Force Hockey Team, Mark was the Central States Midget Major Assistant Coach for the Northwest Chargers in Rolling Meadows for three years. During this time he was also the Select 17 Head Coach for Illinois and also the Head Coach for the Rolling Meadows High School Mustang Hockey Team. Before this he was the Assistant Coach for the Chargers Midget AA Gold team and was on the hockey board for St. Viator High School. Mark was a Head Coach for the Park Ridge Bantam AA team and also coached mites, squirt, peewee and midget at Franklin Park.

Besides coaching from the bench, Mark has also served on the Rules and Ethics Committee and Suspension Committee for AHAI. Mark hs also served as a player scout for the Traverse City North Stars in the NAHL out of Michigan.

Ken accepted the role of Goaltending Coach midway through the 2007-2008 season and made an immediate difference with the play and consistency of all the Force goaltenders. By traveling with the team to all our away games, he gives the goalies the special attention we all know they need.

Mark Shutan, our General Manager, has had extensive management experience with hockey organizations. Over 25 years ago, Mark started his hockey career by coaching at the Falcons organization at the House League level and as a Team Manager at the Travel Level. From there, Mark went on to serve on the Board of Directors at the Falcons for over 9 years. Mark played an active role in the hockey program at Deerfield High School serving on their Board for 5 years including 2 years as President. After Deerfield High School, Mark served on the AHAI Board of Directors for 9 years (including 4 years as Secretary and 5 years as Suspension Committee Chairman) as well as Vice-President of the Chicago Metro High School Hockey League North Division.

Mark has also been a Team Leader at USA Hockey Central District and National 14 Development Camps including Camp Director for the Central District Bantam Camp.

Mark has been with the Force organization since the beginning, serving as General Manager during the inaugural 2002-2003 season, Operations Manager the next 3 years and is happy to be back as General Manager. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Central States Hockey League as Director of Player Personnel and Pointstreak Administrator.

Mark resides in Highland Park, Illinois with his wonderful wife, Maryann. They have two children; David, who is the Force Public Address Announcer for home games and Webcaster for away games and married to Mary and Elizabeth, who is our Pointstreak Supervisor and married to Chris DuCasse, who handles our IT/Web Support.

David grew up listening to the voice of the Chicago Blackhawks, Pat Foley. He played for the Falcons Hockey Association from age 4 and for Deerfield High School from 1993-1997.  David has played piano in a few bands and graduated from Illinois State University with a degree in Music Business in 2002.

Deb Hammersmith has been a bookkeeper for 24 years. Deb runs the office and orders all merchandise and is in charge of volunteers. She resides in Palatine with her husband Mark, their son Mark Jr. and their daughter Nicole.

Chris has played at several levels of hockey, including AA and AAA. Chris' interest in being a goalie, actually began as an avid soccer player. A native of the Detroit metropolitan area, Chris is an avid Red Wings fan and watches them whenever they're on TV. Chris continues to be involved in hockey through the Chicago Force, as the Official Webmaster and Information Technology Support. He has set up and takes care of any technical issues related to our internet networking at the rink.

Elizabeth grew up going to the bubble ice rink to watch her brother, David (Force Announcer) when he played hockey. The Bribe: her favorite snack!

Rob is the head Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Chicago Force. Rob has several years of experience training individuals in both athlete development and fitness. His expertise consists of strength improvement, injury prevention, and post-rehabilitation, as well as speed and agility training. Rob has over 9 years of experience researching and implementing various training techniques and his knowledge has proven to be valuable to the athletes he has coached. Aside from coaching, Rob also has several years experience playing various sports including ice hockey in which he has competed at the High School, A, AA, AAA, Junior (OHL) levels and has attended Junior A (OHA) training camps.

Kim has been photographing the Chicago Force for quite some time now. She's attended just about every game and has been the one snapping those great shots you see outside the rink during a game.