BGCD alumnus Tome Barros joins board of administrators
Tome Barros, Director of Teaching for Northeastern University’s Middle for the Study of Activity, has joined the Board of Directors of the Boys & Ladies Clubs of Dorchester (BGCD).
Barros grew up in Dorchester and learned to participate in basketball at BGCD. Ahead of coming to Northeastern University, Barros served as director of the “Train the Trainer” method for NBA China, supplying curriculum, talent development instruction and high-excellent coaching to far more than 2,000 coaches. He also served as the Basketball Functions Coordinator for the Countrywide Basketball Association in Madrid, Spain, where he collaborated with basketball federations and crucial stakeholders to expand the game of basketball across Europe and the Middle East.
“Boys & Women Golf equipment of Dorchester gave me a legitimate foundation for good results and instilled in me a lot of of the character and leadership expertise that I carry with me now,” Barros reported. “I was guided by staff associates at the Club who really cared about my very well-getting and security and who are nonetheless at the Club nowadays. I am honored and humbled to now come entire circle and be questioned to provide on the Board. I search forward to becoming ready to help provide some of the exact same alternatives that I was provided.”
In 2010, Barros turned the initially-ever recipient of the Shooting Contact Fellowship System, the place he aided make and refurbish basketball courts in Brazil, Cape Verde, and Senegal.
Barros was a member of BGCD through the 2000s and had an energetic leadership function in the Club’s Keystone Club, which gives tutorial, vocation preparation and community service alternatives for teens. In 2004, Barros was honored as the Club’s Youth of the Year. He is a graduate of Boston University Superior Faculty and Hampton University.
“It is a pleasure to have Tome sign up for our Board of Administrators at BGCD,” mentioned Bob Scannell, President & CEO of BGCD. “At a really early age Tome confirmed all of us at the Club that he is a leader. Throughout the several years Tome has continued to provide the Club and the group. We are honored to have him sign up for us.”
Mike Joyce, Senior Vice President of Functions at BGCD, mentored Barros when Barros was a member of the Club.
“I am thrilled to see Tome be a part of our Board of Directors,” Joyce claimed. “He was an exceptional chief through his time as a member and I know he will provide that same determination and enthusiasm to his new position as a Board Member.”
Barros is now a member of the Club’s Dorchester Field House Advisory Committee, a team of about 15 men and women from assorted backgrounds from across the city who are supporting to style and design and generate programming for the proposed facility.
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