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9th Ward Field of Dreams at the Superbowl

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Drew Brees and Marshall Faulk Build Football Stadium in New Orleans’ 9th Ward
 
Saints QB and ex-Colt Launch “TEXT THE DREAM” Campaign; Seeks to raise $800,000 by end of the 4th Quarter
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NEW ORLEANS, LA/ MIAMI, FL (Thursday, February 4, 2010) – As the New Orleans Saints prepare to play their first ever Super Bowl in Miami on February 7, Saints Quarterback Drew Brees and Marshall Faulk, New Orleans native and former Indianapolis Colts player, have made a commitment to support a state-of-the-art, free-to-the-public football stadium [...]

9th Ward Field of Dreams Featured in Times-Picayune

“Brian Bordainick came to New Orleans to teach high school history. He is staying to help rebuild kids’ lives.
His implausible post-Katrina saga is inspiring.
“I never set out to be an athletic director,” he says, “and certainly not a fundraiser or an entrepreneur.’” Read the rest of Sheila Stroups story on Nola.com:
The Can-Do Man

New stadium could offer new hope in New Orleans school – USATODAY.com

NEW ORLEANS — Brian Bordainick came to teach high school geography — not lead a multimillion-dollar fund drive and raise a city’s hopes.

But Bordainick, 24, is now leading a citywide rally to bring a veritable “Field of Dreams” to the battered Upper 9th Ward.

The goal is to build a 1,000-seat football stadium with an eight-lane track for the students at G.W. Carver Senior High School in the 9th Ward, crushed under 10 feet of floodwater during Hurricane Katrina four years ago.

9th Ward Field of Dreams Interviewed on CNN Headline News

The 9th Ward Field of Dreams project is raising money for a high school sports complex. HLN’s Richelle Carey reports.

9th Ward Field Of Dreams on CNN

High school athletic director Brian Bordainick felt like he’d been shot when he learned the crushing news about his “9th Ward Field of Dreams” project.

Architects who had agreed to help the Katrina battered Carver High School in New Orleans, Louisiana, win an NFL grant to build a $2 million stadium were pulling out — the weekend before a Monday deadline.

Nike Game Changer – 9th Ward Field of Dreams

9th Ward Field of Dreams: Help Carver High School Reach Their Goal

NEW ORLEANS – George Washington Carver High School is trying to raise $1.85 million dollars to build a football and track facility on campus in addition to rebuilding the school.

The Challenge: Raise $1.85 million and raise the bar on what was once thought to be possible.

Carver’s Goal: Bring opportunity and hope to a neighborhood struggling to get back on its feet.

The Results: A state-of-the art football field and track that will be enjoyed by all public schools and community members free of charge.

Louisiana: Carver Closer to Building Dream Football Field

Brian Bordainick’s dream football field at New Orleans George Washington Carver is still just that, but it’s moving closer toward reality than it was when his quest to raise money was detailed in a MaxPreps.com story on Dec. 3, 2008.
Back then, Bordainick was trying to raise $200,000 in short order so as to receive a matching grant from the NFL Grassroots Program. Bordainick succeeded, but he still finds himself short $750,000 to complete the $1.85 million project.

“The last thing we want to do is break ground and not get things finished,” Carver’s athletic director told the Times-Picayune of New Orleans.

Can One Person Really Make a Difference?

Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say why not.”

Those words by George Bernard Shaw, and later quoted by Bobby Kennedy, could have been voiced by 23-year old Brian Bordainick, executive director of 9th Ward Field of Dreams.

Bordainick was in Franklinton on Friday, speaking to the members of the Rotary Club, meeting at Mike’s Restaurant. Speaking animatedly, with the sound of clinking knives and forks on china in the background, he told the extraordinary story of the upper 9th Ward’s George Washington Carver High School in New Orleans and how he came to be both their Athletic Director and their superbly quixotic visionary.