Bobby Nuss Stadium

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Bobby Nuss Stadium is Chalmette High School's football stadium in Chalmette, in unincorporated St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana.

It was named after coach Bobby Nuss, the head coach of Chalmette High from 1960-1978, in which he compiled a winning record despite playing as the only public school in a district full of the best private and Catholic high schools in New Orleans.

The stadium was built in 1962 and was originally known as first Chalmette Stadium, then Noel Suarez Stadium, but in a pregame ceremony on November 1st, 1991, the newly-named Bobby Nuss Stadium was unveiled, and Noel Suarez Stadium became the name of the baseball stadium next door

On August 29th, 2005, Hurricane Katrina, flooded the stadium along with the rest of Chalmette and St. Bernard Parish, rendering it unusable temporarily. Chalmette High School initially reopened as St. Bernard Unified School, a single school combining all of the students from Kindergarten through 12th grade in the St. Bernard Parish public school system, but for the 2006-2007 school year, will revert back to being Chalmette High, as schools in St. Bernard Parish take their original names once again to symboize a return to normalcy.

Bobby Nuss Stadium reopened on September 22nd, 2006 when the St. James Wildcats defeated the Chalmette Owls 34-7, in a game that started at 4:00 P.M. due to the delay in getting the lighting fixtures erected. The lights came on on October 13th, as in an event advertised parish-wide and throughout the New Orleans metro-area as St. Bernard Parish's equivalent to the New Orleans Saints' return to the Superdome, the Owls defeated Ben Franklin 44-0

For the rest of the school year, Bobby Nuss Stadium will host Chalmette boys' and girls' soccer. In 2007, Chalmette will rejoin the New orleans Catholic League, the aforementioned district that the Owls played in for 18 years from 1970-1988, in all sports.