Arvada picks Bortner as new football coach

Arvada hired Richard Bortner as its football coach last week, according to athletic director Justin Carpenter.

Bortner was most recently been the offensive coordinator at Hinkley, and has also been an assistant at Skyline. He played high school football in Florida, and in college at Middle Tennessee State. Bortner was also a student assistant at MTSU for two seasons.

The coach will take over for Matt Cisneros, and inherits a Class 3A program that went 0-10 last season. In fact, the Bulldogs are currently mired in a 17-game losing streak.

“Success is not won overnight,” Bortner wrote in an email. “Success is determined by growth and the understanding that with each passing day we never stay the same — we either gain ground or lose ground.

“At Arvada we are going to set high expectations with the understanding that we might not reach those expectations right away,” he continued. “We will understand that through the journey to achieve these high expectation we will become better people.”

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