Sidney H. Feldman

Sidney Feldman was born in 1944 in Brooklyn, NY. He moved out to Levittown and went to W. Tresper Clarke High School on Long Island and then graduated from Lafayette High School after moving back to Brooklyn for his senior year. While in high school he began his camping and canoeing adventures in the Boy Scouts. He continued these activities upon arriving at his college experience at State University of New York at Oneonta. He majored in Secondary Education eventually earning a BS in teaching social studies. While at college he was a member of the varsity swim team. But his love of the outdoors led him to a life of adventure. He was to summit several White Mountain peaks as well as ice climb in Huntingdon Ravine to the summit of Mt. Washington. Eventually he was to summit Mt. Kilimanjaro, Mt. Kenya, the Grand Teton, Mt. Moran, Mt. Ranier, Mt. Baker and the Matterhorn. He also became an avid canoer. Over the course of several years, he paddled the Grand Canyon and Roque River as well as the Middle Fork and the main Salmon River. His expertise in white water canoeing led him to compete and become a member of the 1970 USA Canoe Team and paddled at the World Championships in Merano, Italy.

After college he spent a year in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia. Upon his return he taught at Central High in Providence, Rhode Island. After several years he transferred to Yorktown High School in upstate New York. During his teaching career he wrote three different curriculums.

While at Yorktown High School he accepted a challenge to coach women's volleyball. After five years his win/loss record was 97-17. While coaching high school he created the first ever junior travel program on the east coast. That program attended two AAU National Championships. It also led to Coach Feldman obtaining a head coaching position at the University of Georgia. While at UGA he won over 300 matches and two SEC Championships and one SEC Tournament win. Respected by his peers he was appointed a position on the Regional NCAA Committee, received SEC Coach of the Year Award, AVCA Regional Coach of the Year, and the first Commissioner of Junior Volleyball in the USA Southern Region. He would go on to turn around the Brenau Volleyball Program and have a 64%-win record at Piedmont College where he led his team to a conference win.

Throughout his time in Georgia, he worked tirelessly to help the sport of volleyball grow by running camps, clinics and developing Georgia Juniors. He concluded his volleyball career in a five-year stint at North Oconee High School.

He is succeeded by his loving wife, Martha Harriet "Tootsie" Feldman; daughter, Kara Gabriel; and grandson, Myles Oliver.

Services are private.

Bernstein Funeral Home is in charge of funeral arrangements.