Ed Greene represented Contra Costa College for parts of five decades as a player, coach and administrator
Ed Greene was inducted in Sept. 2024 into the first-ever Contra Costa College Hall of Fame class as a head basketball coach and a player. Photo courtesy of David DeBolt.Ed Greene, a trailblazing coach at Contra Costa College, where he is the only two-time inductee to the athletics Hall of Fame and the namesake of its basketball gym, died Thursday night. He was 83.
“We ended up being the best team in the north, but we go to Contra Costa and I see this guy standing over there, an African American guy, and he was a college coach,” Wade said. “I was intrigued. Coach Greene, he sat over there with a big smile on his face. He was sharp, clean. He dressed up. Had a tie on, a suit and tie. I hate to say it, we ended up losing that game.”
Ed Greene coached basketball at Contra Costa College for 19 seasons, starting in 1969. His teams won 419 games and six conference championships, and never had a losing record. Photo courtesy of the Contra Costa College Advocate. “He called me and said, ‘I’ve got somebody that wants to talk to you,’” Foreman said. “And it was Coach Greene. That couldn’t have been anybody but God. He was supposed to be there so he could see all of us for the last time.”
Foreman credits Greene with changing his life as a high-school senior. He had garnered interest across the country as a highly rated prospect, but those scholarship offers disappeared when he learned that a man had been physically abusing his mother and shot him.
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