Cathy Parker, The Incredible Story of Barrow, Alaska
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Episode 351
Cathy Parker had no idea her life was about to change until an ESPN feature about a football team from the Arctic Circle lit a fire in her soul that she could not ignore. A stirring within her to help the Barrow Whalers football team in a struggling community in Barrow, Alaska, almost 4,000 miles away from her home in Jacksonville, Florida, started a nationwide movement that raised over half a million dollars to build an artificial-turf stadium for a team that needed it.
On this episode of the podcast, we learn about Cathy and how her faith in Christ led her to give back and help tiny Barrow, Alaska. Overcoming obstacle after obstacle, Cathy Parker stayed the course and ultimately changed the lives of so many people, including herself.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:19.3 | This episode of Sports Spectrum's podcast with Kathy Parker is brought to you by Compassion |
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| 0:53.3 | all done in the name of Jesus. |
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| 0:58.0 | Check out compassion.com slash sports spectrum. |
| 1:00.9 | That's the website. |
| 1:02.2 | Compassion.com slash sports spectrum and consider releasing a child from poverty today. |
| 1:10.2 | On the podcast today, we welcome Kathy Parker to the show. |
| 1:15.0 | Kathy is the author of the book Northern Lights, one woman, two teams, and the football |
| 1:20.8 | field that changed their lives. |
| 1:25.1 | It's a story about Kathy, who's a football mom and a coach's wife, her husband Carl, |
| 1:31.4 | played in the NFL with the Cincinnati Bengals, actually was in the Super Bowl, that famous |
| 1:35.5 | Joe Montana to John Taylor, Super Bowl back in 1989. And Kathy was watching ESPN one morning and it changed everything when she happened to be |
| 1:49.4 | watching a show called Outside the Lines and an ESPN feature on the Barrow Whalers, the only high |
| 1:56.3 | school football program above the Arctic Circle in Barrow, Alaska. Where is Barrow, Alaska? Well, it is |
| 2:05.5 | legitimately in the middle of nowhere, is an isolated community, and it's insane. The climate, |
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