Thanks For Being Here - Kathleen's Letter to Coach Dave Greenberg

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

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🗓️ 5 October 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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What makes a coach unforgettable? Kelly reads listener Kathleen Ricketts' tribute to her high school basketball coach, Dave Greenberg—known simply as "DG". This isn't a story about championships or statistics. It's about a man who knew his players as individuals, who loved freely and built confidence that shaped the trajectory of their lives. Through Kathleen's words, we meet a coach who became a second father to young women who needed one, and we're reminded that the greatest legacies live not in record books but in the people we help become who they're meant to be. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. Welcome to Thanks for being here, a short weekly pod to remind us of the many
0:05.4	essential and beautiful ways we affect one another. Every Sunday, I'll read a submission from a
0:12.1	listener of Kelly Corrigan Wonders. Could be wedding vows or a bat mitzvah toast, a eulogy, or
0:17.3	retirement speech. We believe this is probably the loveliest way to tap into our better
0:22.8	selves and remember our highest values. We encourage you to share this podcast each week with one
0:29.1	person you love, maybe someone you miss and need to bring closer, someone you want to feel
0:34.5	your appreciation or admiration or both.
0:40.0	This is thanks for being here.
0:51.5	This week's thanks for being here is another one of our listeners, Kathleen Ricketts,
0:53.8	writing about a high school coach. Dear Kelly, I'd love to share
0:56.7	about my high school basketball coach Dave Greenberg, who we called DG. Pronounced Dige,
1:01.4	we affectionately nicknamed him after he slid over from our rival high school to coach our
1:06.0	girls varsity team and assume a role as a guidance counselor my freshman year of high school. Dege knew us,
1:12.9	and I believe that being known by someone is quite possibly the most sacred form of belonging.
1:18.4	He knew us in ways that we as new, gawky teenagers, didn't even know ourselves. He knew how to
1:24.5	coach each one of us individually, shaking his head at some of us or screaming
1:28.8	with such passions that the veins popped out of his neck to teach the same lesson to others.
1:34.3	He saw potential in players who could barely make a lay-up freshman year who went on to be
1:38.9	star conference ballplayers just a few years later. He knew us and walked with us in every stage of life, through
1:45.7	our teenage angst, our 20s as we searched for ourselves, the births of our children, and even as
1:51.6	many of us picked up clipboards to coach the next generation. His values, his passion, and yes,
1:57.5	his insistence on a tough help man-to-man defense continue to live on through
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