America’s most unique Football team (Barrow, Alaska)
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In the northernmost inhabited city in the U.S., next to the chilly Chukchi Sea, a team of high school football players scrimmage on a blue turf field. Football has only been part of the community for 11 years, and in 2017 the boys took home an Alaska state title for the first time.
There’s likely not a harsher place to play football in America. When the team was created in 2006, most Barrow High School students had never played football in their lives. It wasn’t easy that first year. The players practiced on a dirt and gravel patch in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, often enduring bad scrapes and cuts. But they received a one-time contribution from the Alaska state Legislature to pay for uniforms, equipment and travel costs and fortunately, a woman in Florida saw the conditions of the field in an online video and raised money for a new field so they could play with more success.
Still, the Barrow High School Whalers are about 500 miles away from the nearest opponent. So, the Whalers or their competition have to travel by plane to play. It can cost up to $20,000 to get to a distant game. Barrow is a traditional whaling community and the school has more than 50 percent Native American students, with 90 percent minority enrollment. About a third of the boys at the 200-student high school are on the team.
Read More: https://www.hcn.org/articles/photos-a-football-team-on-the-edge-of-the-world/
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3 comments
Will you still be on Sharks broadcast
Thats super awesome!
Barrow is such a unique place altogether, but this is probably the most unique! I'm from Alaska originally, and I wish I had made the trip up to Barrow (I've been close-ish – Prudhoe Bay for work). I remember when this field was first put there and how cool it was for them to get the national exposure because of it.