Dec
Athletic Director Hopes For 9th Ward Field Of Dreams
NEW ORLEANS — The athletic director of one local high school made his pitch Friday night to help raise money for an athletic field in the Ninth Ward.
Staff and students at George Washington Carver High school are trying to raise money to build a field in the 3000 block of Higgins Boulevard.
The National Football League is offering schools, including G.W. Carver, an amazing opportunity to upgrade their athletic facilities.
This school has a game plan. Their quarterback is the new athletic director at G.W. Carver.
Brian Bordainick is a New Orleans transplant with a team approach to fundraising.
“It’s a pretty great opportunity [...]
Dec
Building Carver’s Field of Dreams
Louisa Street might look like any other street in the city, with uneven spots and potholes. But for the Carver High School Track Team, it’s where they practice – they have no track. var jsVideoWidgetSize = 1; var jsVideoWidgetVideoId = 312905;
And an empty lot next to the still-storm ravaged school is the Carver Football Field.
It’s all they have.
“It’s tough, you know, when you’re looking at what you got, and you always want to provide something better for them,” said teacher [...]
Dec
Carver AD hoping dream comes true
With four days to raise about $100,000, Brian Bordainick’s optimism fuels his idea for a Field of Dreams sports center in the 9th Ward. Bordainick, 23, is with Teach for America — a New Yorker who is helping the city survive Katrina. Like so many other volunteers, he is serving beyond a promise he made.
When George Washington Carver High School’s athletic director left his post in November, Bordainick added the job to teaching duties at the school, a campus of FEMA trailers on Higgins Boulevard. “When I took over, I was the youngest AD in the state’s history,” he [...]
Dec
Brian Bordainick, a 2007 University graduate, has spent the past two years doing his part in cleaning up post-Katrina New Orleans.
After one year of teaching at George Washington Carver High School, a job he received through Teach For America, Bordainick was asked by principal Vanessa Eugene to be the school’s athletic director.
“It is definitely a challenging job, but starting up our athletic program after Katrina has really provided some positive experiences for the community and has certainly affected our graduation rates,” Bordainick said.
George Washington Carver High School, which resumed classes last year from inside eight FEMA trailers, has a limited [...]
Dec
Dreams of Field Inspire Carver Athletic Director
While learning about the civil rights movement as a student outside New York City, Brian Bordainick said he always questioned why people weren’t more involved.
“I never wanted to be in a situation where I asked that of myself,” Bordainick said.
Rest assured, Bordainick needn’t worry. If everyone shared his passion, apathy would disappear.
Bordainick came to the upper 9th Ward of New Orleans with the idealistic zeal of a young man. He has no intentions of slowing down, either, least of all for the naysayers who question his actions.
OK, so trying to raise $200,000 by Dec. 15 is overly ambitious, but that’s [...]
Nov
With each Thanksgiving since Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has found reason for hope and thanks.
Whether the return of pro football, the rebirth of the tourism industry or other incremental gains since the city was devastated, there are reasons to give thanks for those who have either stayed through the worst or returned from exile in other cities in other states.
This year, residents of New Orleans’ 9th Ward – the landscape where so much of Katrina’s tragedy played out – are thankful for the presence of a young teacher from Rockland who has helped breathe life into Carver High School.
The original [...]
Nov
Amazing young alum needs assistance
November 25th, 2008
Shortly after graduating from UGA in May 2007, Brian Bordainick got a job teaching school in Louisiana as part of the national program Teach For America. Within 3 months he was promoted to athletic director at Carver High School in the 9th Ward of New Orleans, making him the youngest high school athletic director in state history. Not only has Brian revamped the school’s sports programs, he also presided over Carver’s first complete football season since Katrina this year.
As if that weren’t enough, Brian has taken on the huge task of trying to raise $200,000 to support his application [...]
Nov
Carver High trying to build ‘Field of Dreams’
By Bradley Handwerger / WWL-TV.com Sports Writer
Raising $200,000 in three months – a difficult process. Raising that kind of money in one month?
Well that’s just crazy. But that’s exactly what Carver High athletics director Brian Bordainick is trying to do. Bordainick’s task has to do with the NFL Grassroots Program, a project that helps lower economic communities build or rebuild a field for public use. “It came across my desk about two or three months ago, a more realistic time frame to raise money,” Bordainick said.
The idea is that a community raised $200,000 and the NFL, which decides which [...]
