Barrow Alaska Football Documentary

Project alaska turf a 501c3 entity began in february 2007 raising the money needed to provide this start up team with an artificial turf field to replace their gravel covered field. Barrow alaska is an eight episode cinematic docu series that will follow the incredible journey of the barrow high school whalers who live at the northernmost point in the united. The nfl network original series football town.
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Barrow alaska football documentary. Barrow alaska standing on the sidelines looking across the high school football field it all seems normal. Acs lions vs barrow whalers 2020 denali auto glasspepsi invitational. The zebra striped officials the screaming parents the face painted cheerleaders. View image of mike aamodt mayor of barrow credit.

Coxarctic documentary project when people first started telling me about the bowhead hunt my head was filled with questions. At first he says many people didnt believe football had a place in barrow. Project alaska turf was inspired by an emmy award winning espn documentary by wayne drehs on a community in barrow alaska. The program focused on a football program that was implemented in order to reverse high teen suicide rates accelerated dropout rates and increased teen drug use.

Barrow alaska follows the story of the barrow whalers. A tour of barrow utqiagvik. The very existence of a football program in a town where every game requires the team to fly out or an opposing team to fly in requires a commitment from the students the school and the community. Living and working in barrow alaska you would think that living at the top of the world 320 miles above the arctic circle that there would not be much to do.

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