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FBI probe leads to arrest of Chaminade Julienne H.S. girls basketball coach
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Chaminade Julienne High School All-America Samarie Walker had just spent Thursday night, April 30, at a birthday party for her coach’s son.
CJ girls basketball coach Marc Greenberg’s son, Zane, had turned 5, and the Greenbergs celebrated with family and friends at Chuck E Cheese’s in Miamisburg.
Four days later — Monday, May 4 — Walker and her teammates were pulled out of class for interviews with the FBI and Dayton police. School officials told the girls Greenberg had been arrested for allegedly using the Internet for the exploitation of minors.
“When they told us coach Greenberg did something, I was like, ‘No, that’s not true. I’ve been around him for almost four years, and I just can’t believe it,’ ” Walker said in a telephone interview Monday night.
As word of Greenberg’s arrest quickly spread throughout the Miami Valley, CJ’s players and parents held a prayer service in the chapel and all CJ students were given the afternoon option of attending class, staying at school or going home.
“Everybody was crying,” Walker said. “We just couldn’t believe it. I never would have thought, ever, something like this would happen. He’s like our second father because we were around him almost more that we were our own family.
“After the prayer service, we talked about how we have to stick by each other mainly, but also stick behind him because even if he did do wrong, we’re still going to be there for him and we still love him.
“In my mind, that’s still my coach, always. I don’t look down on him for what they said he did. He has to go to God for that. But I don’t look at him any differently.”
Walker, a junior who has verbally committed to reigning NCAA champion UConn, said the Eagles were making plans for the 2009-10 season.
“I don’t know how we’ll take to having a new coach,” she said. “Not having him here is going to be a really hard transition.”
CJ Athletic Director Mike Raiff plans to meet with the assistant coaches this week and plot the program’s future.
“We’ve got to keep some stability,” Raiff said. “All I can tell you is we’ll be organized for the kids. This is just all so surreal.”
MENTOR, PEERS REACT
TO GREENBERG’S ARREST
Frank Goldsberry coached Marc Greenberg at Northmont High School, then hired him as an assistant at Chaminade Julienne High School.
Nothing could have prepared Goldsberry for the news that Greenberg faces obscenity charges following his Monday, May 4, arrest.
“I’m saddened for him and his family,” said Goldsberry, the University of Dayton women’s director of basketball operations. “He made a huge mistake. It just makes my stomach sick.
“He was an outstanding player with outstanding work ethic, and he was an invaluable assistant to me (at CJ). I’m just disappointed for everyone involved. He’s a friend that’s gone wayward.”
CJ president Dan Meixner said the school is “saddened and troubled in knowing that our students and families — and community — are in a position to experience, at the very least, broken trust with an adult who was in a position to mentor students at our school.
Alter coach Chris Hart called the arrest “very shocking. We had great battles on the floor, and away from the game, we always got along. We had a very good working relationship.”
“I was as shocked as anybody,” Beavercreek coach Ed Zink said. “When you coach against somebody for a number of years, you get to know them. I would have never seen this coming. I’ve enjoyed coaching against him and hope things work out.”
IN JIM DABBELT’S WORDS
(Dabbelt is executive director of The Dabbelt Report, which bills itself as “Ohio’s Premier Girls Basketball Website.”)
“I have received numerous phone calls and text messages from various people today, and the entire girls basketball community is in shock at these allegations against Marc.
“Chaminade Julienne has a tremendous national tradition in women’s basketball, and the important thing right now is that the community continues to support the young ladies in the Lady Eagles program.”
WHO IS MARC GREENBERG?
• He’s an attorney at Sherrets Law Offices and son of the late Stanley Z. Greenberg, an attorney who specialized in family law.
• He’s the head girls basketball coach at Chaminade Julienne High School, and coached the Eagles to the Division I state title in 2005. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Dayton Lady Hoopstars Basketball Organization, where he was previously the Vice President.
• He helped more than 30 players attain NCAA Division I basketball scholarships.
• He resides in Centerville with his wife and three children.
• He is a graduate of the University of Dayton, with a B.S. in Business Administration, and the University of Dayton School of Law.
http://www.dayton-attorneys.com/profiles2.html
STATEMENT FROM CHAMINADE-JULIENNE
Dayton, Ohio, May 4, 2009 — This morning, the FBI notified Chaminade Julienne administrators that CJ head women’s basketball coach Marc Greenberg was arrested for Internet exploitation of minors. The FBI and Dayton Police indicated that the information came to them from undercover officers in other jurisdictions outside Ohio. There was no evidence in his arrest that anyone from CJ was involved or was victimized.
“We are shocked (by) the news,” said Dan Meixner, CJ president. “We are saddened and troubled in knowing that our students and families-and community—are in a position to experience, at the very least, broken trust with an adult who was in a position to mentor students at our school.”
As a precautionary measure, and in the interest of safety of students, the FBI and the Dayton Police department interviewed students involved with the girls basketball program this morning. The students’ parents were notified of the interviews and invited to morning briefing sessions.
At the conclusion of the interviews, the FBI said that there were no indications that anyone from CJ had been victimized. However, the FBI and the Dayton Police Department are keeping communication channels open for additional information in their ongoing investigation.
“At this time, we have no reason to believe that CJ students are victims,” Meixner said. “Administrators and guidance counselors are working with members of the girls team and their families in offering open communication, support, assistance and personal counsel through this difficult situation.”
Greenberg has been involved with CJ’s coaching program since the 1996-97 season.
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By Jane S.
November 20, 2009 7:44 AM | Link to this
Whatever Happened with Marc Greenberg’s case? Was he convicted?