June 11, 2025 • 12 mins
Doug Wade with "4 the Friendship" joined Todd Walker to talk about their organization and the upcoming golf outing and dinner. Also part of the conversation was longtime LCC Coach Bob Seggerson who will be the keynote speaker for the event.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We look ahead to July nineteenth for the Friendship, the
Lima Masters will have their golf event and their dinner
and awards. They will play golf and then head to
the old barnow back and this guy will be part
of it. Bob Segerson will be the honorary starter and
featured guest speaker, Coach seg How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm doing great?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Yeah, And they of course have called on you to
regale them with some of your great stories at their
awards banquet and be the honorary starter for the golf tournament.
Always good to rekindle some of those old memories. And
a lot of your former players are part of the
for the friendship and the group that will gather, So
that's cool, yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
And it's a great mission that these guys have come
up with. The Lima Masters, for those your listeners who
don't know, it is started by Brady Croft and Mike
Andopka as a way to help support youth athletics and
they've connected it to the word friendship, and so the
idea was they kind of cultivated a connection of friendship
(00:59):
between those athletes in the past who have kind of
a shared passion for the sport they played, and they're
really clever on how they've reached the public. They've used
social media and what they do is they go on
media like Facebook and they show very short snapshots of
games and from the past from area teams. I think
(01:22):
these two guys were from Laida, but they have It's
only like maybe thirty seconds of play and it captured
the imagination of a lot of people in the area.
And it's a great connection because you know, I'm a
big believer in this over the years, the idea of friendship.
If you go and ask athletes from any generation what
(01:45):
they got out of athletics. I mean, I'm talking about
pro college, high school. If you talk to them, they
all eventually land on friendship as the thing they learned
the most. It's true, and they've captured that passion that
I think that is very evident here in the Lima
area between former athletes and current athletes. And they use
(02:07):
it now as a vehicle to raise money for sports,
you know, for youth sports. And one of the things
they do is obviously this great golf outing that they've
got planned.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, and part of for the friendship and the guy
who is I'm told a pretty fair golfer himself, the
two thousand and one Lima City Golf Champion, Doug Wade,
is on the phone with us. Doug, good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
How are you guys?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Hey, we're doing well and you are part of the
original gang of folks that put this together and Coach
Seg just kind of talked about it, but specifically, let's
go to the goal for you guys. With for the
friendship and the Lima Masters, you're raising money for youth sports.
Youth sports is kind of a nebulous term, but what
are you guys looking to do with that money?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah, so, you know the core group of guys that
we kind of got together a couple of years ago,
and you know, as we got to talking about getting
together and playing golf, and it was you know, how
many players should we get and it just continued to
grow and grow, and with my experience running golf outings
and things like that, it started to say, well, you know,
if we if we got some sponsors and did this,
and that we could do this at the event and
(03:14):
do that at the event. And as we got into it,
we realized that there was opportunities there for us to
get far more money you know, to help with our
event that we thought was possible, and so then it
became mission of Okay, well who do we want to
help out? What are we what are we doing this for?
And obviously sports with the court group guys we have
(03:35):
I know you mentioned Brady Croft and My Kanaka, but
the other guys involved or you know, Davy Billetur and
Donnie Barrington and Tommy Wirel and all were fantastic athletes
in their day too, so in line of the best
we can and that's just kind of how it evolved.
So then we started looking at the Central Avenues and
you know, last year we helped the youth football programs,
(03:59):
which I think we're doing and again this year, and wow,
it was an incredible success. And anybody that was at
that awards then or saw the emotion and stuff that
came out of the guys that run that program and
when we gave them the check and that kind of stuff.
So it just kind of evolved in that situation and
we're looking just kind of spread it out over the
next you know, five ten years with different organizations that
(04:23):
we can help with in Lima for various sports. So
you know, we're not regulated to just football, basketball, baseball.
I mean we're looking to kind of help any area
or department, I guess organization that might need it the
most to see them succeed.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
We're talking with Doug Wade and also a former LCC
coach Bob Segerson about the Lima Masters and for the
friendship they're big golf outing is coming up and coach
seg will be the honorary starter for that event. It'll
be July and nineteenth, and where are you guys playing? Doug?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
The event will be a Colonial Offer Club again, same
as last year. I think it's we got a ten
o'clock shotgun on the field is full, I think with
thirty foursomes and mentioned we do a lot of promoting
us stuff on social media. We have one gold sponsorship
left available. All of our siver and bronze seem to
(05:18):
be full. We've got one goal, which is as good
as you get, so if we get one more gold sponsor,
we would add one more team. This year it's going
to be a ten o'clock shotgun. We've got events planned
afterwards and then we're going to be doing the big
awards party in dinner at the Old Barn out back again,
so it's kind of an all day thing and a
lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, and the coach segu will be the speaker at
the dinner and coach when you talk about youth sports.
Of course, that was your life for many years as
a high school coach at Lima Central Catholic. But also
all the camps that you ran through the years, those
hoops camps that many many kids from Lima took part in.
So you can relate to the mission here right.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Well, not only that, I can go back to the
fifties when I was a kid and just go back
to the scene, the line of scene of sports. There
were baseball teams playing all over the city and they
were sponsored by local service clubs, you know everybody. Of
course they doesn't have then what they have now, but
you get the same color ball cap and T shirt
(06:19):
and it would have the name of your team, but
on the back have Kowanas or Optimists or you know,
all these different clubs. And the same thing with football
when I grew up, if you went back drove by
rob Avenue Park up there, they would be filled with
these midget league football teams and they all had sponsors.
And so you know, I think of my youth and
(06:42):
how you take for granted all those uniforms got paid for,
how all those you know, the umpires got paid for.
All the organization. There was a lot of volunteerism to
what there still is, but it still costs money to
do that. And in this day and age, it takes
ideas like this group of guys came up with to
support youth sports. So it's it's something that everybody can
(07:06):
get into and support.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
And Doug, you mentioned the golf outing is full, but
still just dudes could show up at your dinner right
if they wanted to have some fellowship.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Absolutely, and not only that, they would come out for
the golf course and hang out. We've got foods going
to be around all day. Want to come out and
you know, hang out with their friends that are playing.
I mean, this this group is it's people from all
different schools. We've got some from different eras you know.
I was obviously last year we honored the unbelievable football
(07:37):
coach from the Light of Football that was there for
years and years. And then so this year when when
Mike and Brady called me and said, hey, we you
know what we're thinking about doing. You know, coach Seg Obviously,
I was ecstatic and I said, this is perfect. And
we've been able to add some some even more people
from LSC and guys that have played for coach Seg
in the past. Uh. So we've got a great group
(07:59):
of people of Ball First this year that are gonna
be playing in the event. And so I know they
reach out to almost every area of Lima as far
as friends go. So we're hoping for an incredible turnout
not only at the dinner that everyone's invited to, but
also the golf course throughout the day and all of that.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Doug, for those who may not know, catch us up
on what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
You're the club pro, right where are you now?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah? So I'm My club is a Sugar Valley golf Club.
It's a it's a little private club in southeast Dayton.
I've been down here for eleven years now at Sugar
Valley and I live actually in the northern side of Cincinnati.
You know, I've got three kids that are all very
active in sports, all very active in basketball, and you know,
(08:47):
so that's where I'm at down there and not not
too far from home and sing great.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yeah, and for folks that want to get in on it.
The Lima Masters on social media as the site to follow.
As Coach Seg was talking about, they do a lot
of those short clips of games from yesteryear. But for
the Friendship dot com is the website for the organization.
That's the number four like on Doug's scorecard on the
(09:12):
par five, the number four right if not a three
for Doug right. Also, you were talking about sponsors, Seg,
we wanted to make sure and talk about the presenting
sponsor for these guys is Travis Lawson from Lawson Brothers
Construction and they are a big part of what happens here.
So Coach Seg, I guess in closing, what's sort of
(09:33):
going to be your theme for your talk to these guys.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Friendship? I mean, it's a theme that brought these guys
together in the first place, and it's a theme that
has been consistent in my life. I wrote a column
for the Lineman News for a number of years and
I was struck by I love to go back and
do history. I love to go back and talk to
guys who played in the thirties and forties and some
of the great Central and Saint Rose and South high
(09:57):
school teams, and I was struck by how many of
them spoke about friendship, just like the newer columns I
would do on more recent teams. I'm thinking of the
Kaleida last second shot that was their great shot that
I did a column on where they learned basically a
last second shot. And I interviewed guys from both Kalida
(10:18):
and Autaville about that, and every one of them brought
up the fact that now they're all friends, you know,
not friends just with their teammates, but the people they
played against. And I've seen that. I've seen that myself.
I was in an airport last year and got delayed
down in Charlotte, and there was a guy about three
(10:39):
people in front of me standing in line to get
another ticket, and he was a great, big guy, and
I recognized him as a guy that I used to
play against at Evansville University when I played ball in college.
And I tapped him on the shoulder and I said Steve,
And it was Steve Wilmer, who became an official in
the Big Ten After a while. Anyhow, he looked around
at me, and he looked at me and went Sigerson,
(11:01):
And I hadn't seen him, you know since I you know,
it's been thirty forty years since I played college. But
we sat there in the bar waiting for our flight,
and we talked the entire time, and it was just
it was just that connection. When you compete with someone
and against someone, it can be pretty intense at the time,
but it's friendship in the end, is what is what
(11:23):
happens between athletes.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Well, guys, it's going to be a great event. And again,
their golf outing and their dinner is coming up on
July nineteenth, the golf at Colonial, the dinner at Old Barn,
and if anybody wants to just sort of stop in
and join them. The golf outing is full, but the
fellowship and you can stop and get something to eat
and hang out with all these other guys if you
(11:46):
want to take part in that. July nineteenth, the dinner
starts at six o'clock. Doug Wade with for the friendship,
Coach seg appreciate you guys joining us today.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Thanks good talking to you, Doug.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yeah, you two, coach. Thanks Tom
We look ahead to July nineteenth for the Friendship, the
Lima Masters will have their golf event and their dinner
and awards. They will play golf and then head to
the old barnow back and this guy will be part
of it. Bob Segerson will be the honorary starter and
featured guest speaker, Coach seg How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm doing great?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Yeah, And they of course have called on you to
regale them with some of your great stories at their
awards banquet and be the honorary starter for the golf tournament.
Always good to rekindle some of those old memories. And
a lot of your former players are part of the
for the friendship and the group that will gather, So
that's cool, yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
And it's a great mission that these guys have come
up with. The Lima Masters, for those your listeners who
don't know, it is started by Brady Croft and Mike
Andopka as a way to help support youth athletics and
they've connected it to the word friendship, and so the
idea was they kind of cultivated a connection of friendship
(00:59):
between those athletes in the past who have kind of
a shared passion for the sport they played, and they're
really clever on how they've reached the public. They've used
social media and what they do is they go on
media like Facebook and they show very short snapshots of
games and from the past from area teams. I think
(01:22):
these two guys were from Laida, but they have It's
only like maybe thirty seconds of play and it captured
the imagination of a lot of people in the area.
And it's a great connection because you know, I'm a
big believer in this over the years, the idea of friendship.
If you go and ask athletes from any generation what
(01:45):
they got out of athletics. I mean, I'm talking about
pro college, high school. If you talk to them, they
all eventually land on friendship as the thing they learned
the most. It's true, and they've captured that passion that
I think that is very evident here in the Lima
area between former athletes and current athletes. And they use
(02:07):
it now as a vehicle to raise money for sports,
you know, for youth sports. And one of the things
they do is obviously this great golf outing that they've
got planned.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, and part of for the friendship and the guy
who is I'm told a pretty fair golfer himself, the
two thousand and one Lima City Golf Champion, Doug Wade,
is on the phone with us. Doug, good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
How are you guys?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Hey, we're doing well and you are part of the
original gang of folks that put this together and Coach
Seg just kind of talked about it, but specifically, let's
go to the goal for you guys. With for the
friendship and the Lima Masters, you're raising money for youth sports.
Youth sports is kind of a nebulous term, but what
are you guys looking to do with that money?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah, so, you know the core group of guys that
we kind of got together a couple of years ago,
and you know, as we got to talking about getting
together and playing golf, and it was you know, how
many players should we get and it just continued to
grow and grow, and with my experience running golf outings
and things like that, it started to say, well, you know,
if we if we got some sponsors and did this,
and that we could do this at the event and
(03:14):
do that at the event. And as we got into it,
we realized that there was opportunities there for us to
get far more money you know, to help with our
event that we thought was possible, and so then it
became mission of Okay, well who do we want to
help out? What are we what are we doing this for?
And obviously sports with the court group guys we have
(03:35):
I know you mentioned Brady Croft and My Kanaka, but
the other guys involved or you know, Davy Billetur and
Donnie Barrington and Tommy Wirel and all were fantastic athletes
in their day too, so in line of the best
we can and that's just kind of how it evolved.
So then we started looking at the Central Avenues and
you know, last year we helped the youth football programs,
(03:59):
which I think we're doing and again this year, and wow,
it was an incredible success. And anybody that was at
that awards then or saw the emotion and stuff that
came out of the guys that run that program and
when we gave them the check and that kind of stuff.
So it just kind of evolved in that situation and
we're looking just kind of spread it out over the
next you know, five ten years with different organizations that
(04:23):
we can help with in Lima for various sports. So
you know, we're not regulated to just football, basketball, baseball.
I mean we're looking to kind of help any area
or department, I guess organization that might need it the
most to see them succeed.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
We're talking with Doug Wade and also a former LCC
coach Bob Segerson about the Lima Masters and for the
friendship they're big golf outing is coming up and coach
seg will be the honorary starter for that event. It'll
be July and nineteenth, and where are you guys playing? Doug?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
The event will be a Colonial Offer Club again, same
as last year. I think it's we got a ten
o'clock shotgun on the field is full, I think with
thirty foursomes and mentioned we do a lot of promoting
us stuff on social media. We have one gold sponsorship
left available. All of our siver and bronze seem to
(05:18):
be full. We've got one goal, which is as good
as you get, so if we get one more gold sponsor,
we would add one more team. This year it's going
to be a ten o'clock shotgun. We've got events planned
afterwards and then we're going to be doing the big
awards party in dinner at the Old Barn out back again,
so it's kind of an all day thing and a
lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, and the coach segu will be the speaker at
the dinner and coach when you talk about youth sports.
Of course, that was your life for many years as
a high school coach at Lima Central Catholic. But also
all the camps that you ran through the years, those
hoops camps that many many kids from Lima took part in.
So you can relate to the mission here right.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Well, not only that, I can go back to the
fifties when I was a kid and just go back
to the scene, the line of scene of sports. There
were baseball teams playing all over the city and they
were sponsored by local service clubs, you know everybody. Of
course they doesn't have then what they have now, but
you get the same color ball cap and T shirt
(06:19):
and it would have the name of your team, but
on the back have Kowanas or Optimists or you know,
all these different clubs. And the same thing with football
when I grew up, if you went back drove by
rob Avenue Park up there, they would be filled with
these midget league football teams and they all had sponsors.
And so you know, I think of my youth and
(06:42):
how you take for granted all those uniforms got paid for,
how all those you know, the umpires got paid for.
All the organization. There was a lot of volunteerism to
what there still is, but it still costs money to
do that. And in this day and age, it takes
ideas like this group of guys came up with to
support youth sports. So it's it's something that everybody can
(07:06):
get into and support.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
And Doug, you mentioned the golf outing is full, but
still just dudes could show up at your dinner right
if they wanted to have some fellowship.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Absolutely, and not only that, they would come out for
the golf course and hang out. We've got foods going
to be around all day. Want to come out and
you know, hang out with their friends that are playing.
I mean, this this group is it's people from all
different schools. We've got some from different eras you know.
I was obviously last year we honored the unbelievable football
(07:37):
coach from the Light of Football that was there for
years and years. And then so this year when when
Mike and Brady called me and said, hey, we you
know what we're thinking about doing. You know, coach Seg Obviously,
I was ecstatic and I said, this is perfect. And
we've been able to add some some even more people
from LSC and guys that have played for coach Seg
in the past. Uh. So we've got a great group
(07:59):
of people of Ball First this year that are gonna
be playing in the event. And so I know they
reach out to almost every area of Lima as far
as friends go. So we're hoping for an incredible turnout
not only at the dinner that everyone's invited to, but
also the golf course throughout the day and all of that.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Doug, for those who may not know, catch us up
on what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
You're the club pro, right where are you now?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah? So I'm My club is a Sugar Valley golf Club.
It's a it's a little private club in southeast Dayton.
I've been down here for eleven years now at Sugar
Valley and I live actually in the northern side of Cincinnati.
You know, I've got three kids that are all very
active in sports, all very active in basketball, and you know,
(08:47):
so that's where I'm at down there and not not
too far from home and sing great.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yeah, and for folks that want to get in on it.
The Lima Masters on social media as the site to follow.
As Coach Seg was talking about, they do a lot
of those short clips of games from yesteryear. But for
the Friendship dot com is the website for the organization.
That's the number four like on Doug's scorecard on the
(09:12):
par five, the number four right if not a three
for Doug right. Also, you were talking about sponsors, Seg,
we wanted to make sure and talk about the presenting
sponsor for these guys is Travis Lawson from Lawson Brothers
Construction and they are a big part of what happens here.
So Coach Seg, I guess in closing, what's sort of
(09:33):
going to be your theme for your talk to these guys.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Friendship? I mean, it's a theme that brought these guys
together in the first place, and it's a theme that
has been consistent in my life. I wrote a column
for the Lineman News for a number of years and
I was struck by I love to go back and
do history. I love to go back and talk to
guys who played in the thirties and forties and some
of the great Central and Saint Rose and South high
(09:57):
school teams, and I was struck by how many of
them spoke about friendship, just like the newer columns I
would do on more recent teams. I'm thinking of the
Kaleida last second shot that was their great shot that
I did a column on where they learned basically a
last second shot. And I interviewed guys from both Kalida
(10:18):
and Autaville about that, and every one of them brought
up the fact that now they're all friends, you know,
not friends just with their teammates, but the people they
played against. And I've seen that. I've seen that myself.
I was in an airport last year and got delayed
down in Charlotte, and there was a guy about three
(10:39):
people in front of me standing in line to get
another ticket, and he was a great, big guy, and
I recognized him as a guy that I used to
play against at Evansville University when I played ball in college.
And I tapped him on the shoulder and I said Steve,
And it was Steve Wilmer, who became an official in
the Big Ten After a while. Anyhow, he looked around
at me, and he looked at me and went Sigerson,
(11:01):
And I hadn't seen him, you know since I you know,
it's been thirty forty years since I played college. But
we sat there in the bar waiting for our flight,
and we talked the entire time, and it was just
it was just that connection. When you compete with someone
and against someone, it can be pretty intense at the time,
but it's friendship in the end, is what is what
(11:23):
happens between athletes.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Well, guys, it's going to be a great event. And again,
their golf outing and their dinner is coming up on
July nineteenth, the golf at Colonial, the dinner at Old Barn,
and if anybody wants to just sort of stop in
and join them. The golf outing is full, but the
fellowship and you can stop and get something to eat
and hang out with all these other guys if you
(11:46):
want to take part in that. July nineteenth, the dinner
starts at six o'clock. Doug Wade with for the friendship,
Coach seg appreciate you guys joining us today.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Thanks good talking to you, Doug.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yeah, you two, coach. Thanks Tom
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