He was also a member of the United States men's national handball team which placed ninth at the 1996 Summer Olympics Dachniwsky grew up in Ukrainian Village, Chicago.
Dachniwsky graduated from Gordon Technical High School and attended the University of Illinois at Chicago, playing one year on the Flames' soccer team.
[2] Dachniwsky moved to the Milwaukee Wave for the 1988–89 AISA season, then to the Atlanta Attack of the National Professional Soccer League in 1989.
In 1991, Dachniwsky moved to yet another league, this time the USISL where he would win three consecutive indoor championships with the Atlanta Magic.
On September 25, 2005, Dachniwsky left the Fire to join the Chicago Storm as Vice President of Business Development.