[1] He graduated from Woodland High School[2] and Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, where he played football and baseball for the Pioneers.
[4] In 1977, Cheff succeeded Ramon Hooker as head coach of the Lewis–Clark State baseball team.
[5] His Warriors won 16 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) titles.
[9] He won the ABCA's Lefty Gomez Award, given for lifetime achievement in amateur baseball, in 2009.
[12] Cheff and his wife, Karen, a retired elementary school teacher, had three sons: Trever, Tyler, Toby.