Kim Rivers: The Bronx In The 1970's

Growing up in the Bronx in the 1970’s could have seem a little harsh. With many gang and crime activity it was not a pretty place to be in, Especially in the southern portion of the Bronx, which saw a drastic decline in its population. For some people it looked very much like a ghost town, with many abandoned skyscrapers and closed down shops. Overall the people lived in treacherous house conditions, and had a poor quality of life. This is where Kim Rivers, Raised by his mother and father, grew up to be a single child. He grew up in a one bedroom one bathroom single family home. As a single kid Rivers didn 't have much growing up, with his family almost below poverty level. There wasn 't much around for rivers to do, until His father introduced …show more content…
Many, which were in juvenile for doing drugs and drinking. He got the chance to speak with each one of the kids and family members individually to help get them back on the right path. After hearing about Kim Rivers knowledge about sports and working with children Randallstown High School in the Baltimore area, offered him a coaching job as a high school basketball coach. Here, Rivers would go on to coach fourteen highly successful years. Taking the school to five state championships, as well as eight state final appearances, and eleven final four appearances Out of his fourteen years being there he took the Rams to twelve twenty-one win seasons. In 2007 Rivers was honored the sun’s all-metro coach of the year. Then in April of 2008 he got a offer to coach the shiloh high school basketball team, Who had been struggling prior to coach rivers becoming the head coach. He brought a different kind of philosophy to shiloh’s basketball team. Rivers got the offense to be more up-tempo, and brought more defensive intensity. The toughest thing for rivers was leaving his coaching staff and players at Randallstown High