Award-winning Brunt Essay: Carver High

Stephen Brunt takes you on a journey to the Ninth Ward where a community destroyed by Hurricane Katrina is striving to find hope through football.

A look back at Sportsnet’s award-winning feature that saw Stephen Brunt travel to the Ninth Ward where a community destroyed by Hurricane Katrina is striving to find hope through football.

‘Carver High’ was named the Best Sports Feature Segment by the Canadian Screen Awards, which honours the best in Canadian television, movies and digital.

Since the feature originally aired in January 2013, ground has broken on the new stadium and at least one of the boys interviewed received an NCAA scholarship to play Division-1 football.

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