Lower Burrell native Sydney Bordonaro now can add fashion to the list of her basketball successes. As a Burrell High School student, Bordonaro led the Bucs to their greatest seasons in basketball history from 2011 to 2015, setting numerous school records and making the all-state first team her junior and senior years. After graduation, Bordonaro set her sights on the West Coast and played collegiate basketball for Pepperdine and Long Beach State while studying sports management.
In the WNBA, she has taken a behind-the-scenes role, styling some of the league’s top players as they prepare for games and take on other appearances. Her accomplishments and styles recently were showcased on the “Today Show With Hoda & Jenna.” “The intersection of fashion and culture and sports is where I see myself living,” Bordonaro, 27, told TribLive.
Ball is life “Ball was and always has been my life,” said Bordonaro, who was born and raised in Lower Burrell, . In high school, Bordonaro was a top scorer and set up Burrell as a championship contender in each of her four seasons. She was the Valley News Dispatch’s Player of the Year in her sophomore, junior and senior years.
Bordonaro had always wanted to be a sports agent — and had a job lined up — but the pandemic hit and that world shook up. “I was stranded in Pittsburgh a little bit and applying for, like, a million jobs in the sports agency world,” she said. “I could not get a job.
” In July 2021, she decided to move.
