The Brooklyn assistant principal caught on camera carousing at a boozy staff party barged into the football team’s changing room to film a coach whom administrators were trying to fire.
Diana Rendon, the Progress HS for Professional Careers administrator, caught the players off-guard — and some undressed — during the Oct. 20 incident..
“I was almost naked,” said Kordell Wray, 18. “All I had on was underwear.”
Rendon, 33, entered the changing room at the Aviator Sports Complex, where the Grand Street Campus Wolves were getting dressed to play the Abraham Lincoln HS’s Railsplitters. Without announcing herself, she held up her cell phone behind coach Bruce Eugene, who was giving the team a pep talk, several witnesses told The Post.
Eugene — a substitute teacher who made history as the first black coach to win the city’s public-school football crown — was booted the previous month for letting a Long Island player use his Brooklyn address so the kid could enroll in the Williamsburg school without paying non-city resident tuition.
But Eugene won a court order lifting the suspension and ordering his reinstatement before the game.
The coach said he wanted to motivate the team despite the controversy. “F–k what I’m going through, f–k what’s going on. Let’s focus on Lincoln,” he said he urged the kids.
The city Department of Education said Friday the coach was “allegedly heard making inappropriate comments and using profanities” and was terminated.
The DOE refused to comment on Rendon’s actions. She did not return an e-mail.
Rendon was filmed in May 2015 holding a bottle of booze and sliding off a bed at a loud hotel-room party during an upstate staff retreat, The Post reported last week.