How to display part of an author's profile in a node

I have been trying to do display a custom field I created in the manage fields section of user accounts for nodes in addition to the profile page. The problem I am having with this code is that it will display the first field it finds and display that for every user, not the field for that particular user.
And ideas? I believe it's finding the first value in the array and not the value for the particular user in the array.

Here is m setup so far:
Added this to my template.php of my theme:

function mythemename_preprocess_node(&$vars) {

global $user;
  $user = user_load($user->uid); // Make sure the user object is fully loaded
  $team = field_get_items('user', $user, 'field_team');
  if ($team) {
    $vars['field_team'] = $team[0]['value'];
  }
}
Then, added this to my node.tpl.php in order to display it on nodes.

 if (isset($field_team) && !empty($field_team)) :
  echo '$field_team.'</div>';
endif;

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