Chris Walker

About Chris Walker

Q: Please tell us a little bit about your family.

I have been married to my wife Lucy for 38 years and we have 2 daughters, Cal Walker and Mrs. Jamie Lang. We have 4 Grandkids, Averie 10, Walker 6, Huxley 5 and Baylor 3. We both grew up in the St. Louis area have lived in Mukwonago for 35 years.

Q: Please tell us about your current, past, or future career. What do you love most about what you do?

I currently work at Lynch of Mukwonago as a Salesperson and Lucy is retired. I enjoy meeting new people every day and helping them with their auto decisions and hearing their story/

Q: What advice would you give to people?

Follow your passion. Find something you enjoy and pursue that. I feel I should have pursued a sports journalism degree and see if I could have been a broadcaster for a local professional team.

Q: Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

Retired and spending time in Florida with my wife and playing golf while she goes to the beach. Spending more time with our grandkids as they grow up.

Q: What have you done to make Mukwonago a better place?

As I said before in the introduction, I am very active in the community with announcing and other committees in the community. This year will be my 20th year announcing for the Mukwonago Braves youth football program and it will be my 10th year announcing the high school varsity football games. I also announce for softball, track and Lacrosse in the spring. I was the President of FOMA, friends of Mukwonago Athletics and had the pleasure to serve during the athletic stadium renovation. I have coached a number of teams and helped run the Bears baseball program with Mike Hamilton for 7 years.

Chris Walker & Our Community

Q: What are a couple of your favorite restaurants in our community? And what is your favorite thing to order from those restaurants?

I enjoy Sol De Mexico for their ham and cheese omelet. They are very friendly and good or bad they know me when I call in for my order.

Q: Who is the most interesting person you’ve met here in our community?

Can not narrow this down to one. Here are the top few. Craig Vertz who helped me get started with the Braves announcing after meeting my daughter Cal and I am proud to call him a friend. Mark Greene the current General Manager for Lynch Mukwonago who I have known for over 10 years and have worked for the past 8 years. He is very invested in this community, and he gets what this community is all about. Mike Hamilton I consider my best friend and we met through the Bears Baseball program he started and that we ran together for 7 years. He is, as I have said before, the quiet mastermind. He has been a great mentor and friend to me. Rust Schoolcraft is another great member of this community I have met. We have spent a lot of time together since he runs the clock for the football games. He is a Mukwonago guy through and through and has helped me know the Mukwonago history and it is never boring working with him during some long days announcing. Then there is Sheryl Grossman who is behind the scenes but an integral member of this community. She runs the concession stand at the stadium, gets all the supplies during the week and gets there around 2:30 for the 7 pm varsity games, she helps keep the Braves organized with equipment items and the fund raising that they do. She has been on the FOMA board as well and is always willing to help with any outing or event in town. I could go on with the people of the community who are interesting and have been a positive influence for me and my family. Others would be Andy Trudell, and Jim Frutchey.

Q: What current or former local business makes you the most nostalgic about our community?

I guess it would be either Fork in the road because of the history of the building and its location and the other one would be Metro Market which I knew as the McAdam’s Pick n Save when we first got here and seeing John McAdams in the cereal aisle of his store visiting with everybody.

Q: If you could choose anyone that is alive today and not a relative; with whom would you love to have lunch? Why? And where locally would y’all meet for this lunch?

Giannis and his mom. If you saw the documentary on him and his family and where they came from, I would love to meet them and talk about their life. I would go the Sol De Mexico and watch the people come in and see the looks on their faces. I would have to bring my grandkids as well.

Q: What is your favorite thing to do in Mukwonago?

Watch my Grandkids perform on stage at the PAC or play sports in the community.

For Fun

Q: What is one of your favorite movies? TV shows?

Favorite movie is still Rudy. The underdog spirit and how he stuck with it to fulfill a dream is motivational.

Q: (Even for friends or family), what is something interesting that most people don’t know about you?

I graduated from the U S. Merchant Marine Academy in NY and have a Marine Engineering degree and a minor concentration in Nuclear Engineering.

Q: If you could travel anywhere in the world right now, where would it be and why?

St. Andrews. I enjoy golf and would love to play on the old course.

Q: What is your go to band/artist when you can’t decide what to listen to?

My favorite artist is James Taylor. Got to go with our daughter Cal and our Grand Daughter Averi who is in 5th grade at Clarendon to Averie’s first concert to see James Taylor last year.

Q: If you had a time machine, what historical event would you want to see?

The signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Q: Do you have any nicknames? What are they and why were they given to you?

My nickname is DUB. I got this from our granddaughter Averie, and it is now what our grandkids call me, and many friends and family do as well.

Q: What are you passionate about?

My family, my grandkids and Mukwonago Sports.

Q: Who would you like to give a shout-out to that contributed to your success?

MY Wife Ange/Lucy no doubt. She has been very supportive of my endeavors. She held down the fort, when I was traveling across the country when our kids were young, she has supported me with all the things I do in the community and allowed me to be gone announcing or referring basketball during the winter since she knows I enjoy those things. She is amazing.

Q: Favorite month? favorite holiday? and best single day on the calendar?

September is my favorite month. 6 of the 7 members of my immediate family were born in or around that month and it reminds me of family. Best single day is Christmas with the Grandkids and family.

Q: If you won $10,000,000 what is the first thing you would do?

Retire, pay off the student loans for our kids and pay for all the kids to play in Mukwonago youth sports for free for a year.

Q: What is one or two of your favorite smells?

Cinnamon and my mom’s meat loaf that my wife makes for me.

Q: Finally, what 3 words or phrases come to mind when you think of the word HOME?

Mukwonago, Family and my mom Olive Walker