Young Coach Aids Rebuilding at New Orleans

On July 6th of 2007 Buzz Williams resigned as the men’s basketball head coach at the University of New Orleans after only one season. His replacement for the next four seasons would be Joe Pasternack. He is the team’s third coach in three years.

This is Pasternack’s first head-coaching job, after serving as assistant coach in California for the previous eight seasons. The University of New Orleans’ basketball team’s home court, Lakefront Arena, was still not restored after its destruction from Hurricane Katrina. The team would practice and play in a high school gym, one of many challenges that Joe Pasternack had to face during his career as coach there.

The one factor that was in his favor, is the fact that he is originally from New Orleans. His parents had lost their home in the hurricane and he understood that recovery, whether of a home, a home court, or a basketball team as a whole demands much patience and hope.“I felt like I wanted to be back home, regardless of Katrina,” Pasternack said. “But the storm made it even more of a calling.”

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Young Coach Aids Rebuilding at New Orleans

On July 6th of 2007 Buzz Williams resigned as the men’s basketball head coach at the University of New Orleans after only one season. His replacement for the next four seasons would be Joe Pasternack. He is the team’s third coach in three years.

This is Pasternack’s first head-coaching job, after serving as assistant coach in California for the previous eight seasons. The University of New Orleans’ basketball team’s home court, Lakefront Arena, was still not restored after its destruction from Hurricane Katrina. The team would practice and play in a high school gym, one of many challenges that Joe Pasternack had to face during his career as coach there.

The one factor that was in his favor, is the fact that he is originally from New Orleans. His parents had lost their home in the hurricane and he understood that recovery, whether of a home, a home court, or a basketball team as a whole demands much patience and hope.“I felt like I wanted to be back home, regardless of Katrina,” Pasternack said. “But the storm made it even more of a calling.”

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Monday 8 dworfy daysquid collection

I skipped the dive yesterday simply because I was a wuzz I didnt want to drive and I didnt want the cold. Steve said to me I bet You the Girlz are going to find 8 dworfs and you are going to miss it. And gave me the Kovacs look. I couldnt wait till they get out of the water to find out what they saw Almost exactly that Not 8 but 6 plus 2 of my Nodosas between other interesting

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RIHLA 29

Amnesty International is an organization that is fighting to see every personregardless of race religion ethnicity sexual orientation or gender identity enjoy all the human rights found in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights UDHR and other internantionally recognized human right standards. This is not just a statement that people are hopping will come true on its own Amnesty Inte

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Quick summary of last few days

Just gonna try and do an update of the last few days because didn39t have access to internet grrr..Anyway second day on the Rocky Mountaineer was also good…lots of changing scenery some of it surprisingly seemed really dry with salt bush and dry earth despite snow and massive running river. Some of it reminded me of the Flinders Ranges a little I39ll try and post a pic to show what

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Perth to Kununura

Sorry about extreme delay between blogs having technical and remoteness issues. The whole WA coast has been awesome and we could spend many more weeks in that area. Highlights would include Geraldton the fantastic and remote Cape Peron the Nigaloo reef at Cape Range and the unique aboriginal settlement of the Dampier Peninsula and Cape Leveque. We spent the last week traversing the Gibb River r

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Osaka

In early May I was able to go to Osaka for two days for a judo tournament. The team left on Saturday using the Shinkansen to get there. The Shinkansen cut what could have been a 7 hour bus ride into a three hour train ride. yay The Shinkansen is a nice way to travel by in Japan but it is very expensive. It cost around triple the price of bus ticket. The train took three stops on the way to Osa

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A Glimpse of Clarity at Last

I have been in crisis mode for the past few days. I have not made a friend and I have felt very lost and lonely.I bought a new necklace today a beautifully wrapped rose quartz. I don39t know why that feels important but somehow it does. A new necklace a new chapter.But I was still in crisis mode lost as ever. I had no idea where to go next I only knew I couldn39t stay here.Some friendly

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Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You….

With yet another day of severe jet lag and suffering from the time difference I spent the day at Arlington National Cemetary. What an amazing experience I was to touched honored and inspired by this hallowed ground. Speechless from the stretches of white tombstones I think every American should visit this place.I took the easy way out and opted to purchase a ticket for the tram. With very sore

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I’m Blind

Just my luck to see the solar eclipse Very cool…yet ouchy on the eyeballs lol. On a different note…I tried what was made out to be the best pizza ever today. It was from a joint called Michael39s New York Style Pizza. It was deffinitely not like the pizza I had in New York..but it certainly had it39s own delicious taste. I give this joint an extra 10 bonus points for serving extra lar

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