Northern Lights: One Woman, Two Teams, and the Football Field That Changed Their Lives

By: Cathy Parker, David Thomas
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Life is hard in Barrow, Alaska. Football mom Cathy Parker first caught a glimpse of this far-away reality from the comfort of her Jacksonville, Florida, living room while watching a 2006 ESPN report on the Barrow Whalers, a high school football team consisting mostly of Alaskan Inupiat Eskimo natives playing in the most difficult of conditions and trying to overcome the most unlikely of odds. These players—raised in the northernmost town in the United States, where drug abuse is rampant and the high school dropout rate is high—found themselves playing on a gravel field, using flour to draw the lines.

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  • Contributor(s) Cathy Parker , David Thomas
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  • About the Contributor(s)

    Cathy Parker and her husband, Carl, have raised four children, all at the ballfields. Cathy has experienced the extreme highs and lows of raising athletes and can relate to the toll athletics can have on the family. She founded the not-for-profits Athletes to Champions and Beyond the Ballfield to help athletes and their families deal with the realities of sports and use their influence for good.



    David Thomas, LMSW, is the counseling director for men and boys at Daystar. A popular speaker and the coauthor of five books, he is a frequent guest on national television and radio, and a regular contributor to ParentLife magazine. David and his wife, Connie, have a daughter and twin sons
  • ISBN-13 9780785223801
  • Publish Date 06/25/2019
  • Publisher Thomas Nelson
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  • Format Softcover
  • Language English
  • Age Range Adult
  • Weight (lbs) 1.0 lb
  • Case Weight (lbs) 36.03 lb
  • Case Quantity 36
  • Dimensions 8.35(h) x 5.45(w) x 0.75(d) inches
  • Pages 224
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  • Price $12.59
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