Vestavia Hills came up short in its bid to win the Special Olympics Alabama Unified Flag Football Game last Wednesday at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Baldwin County Schools’ Unified football team downed Vestavia Hills 27-20, giving the Bandits, coached by Mike Conner, their third consecutive title. Baldwin County beat Vestavia Hills 26-18 in 2018 but lost to the Rebels 27-26 in … [Read more...]
Young Hoover Girls Basketball Team Rewarding Coach’s Patience
By Rubin E. Grant Hoover girls basketball coach Krystle Johnson was more than a little cranky after the Bucs’ first loss of the season. After opening the season with three double-digit victories, the Bucs suffered a humiliating 42-29 setback at Ramsay. “I don’t think (Ramsay) was that good,” Johnson grumbled. “We just played that bad.” Hoover was without its leading scorer, … [Read more...]
Briarwood’s Mathias Takes Home the Gold X3 from State Swim Meet
Hoover sophomore Caroline Lawrence won the Class 200-yard IM. Briarwood Christian junior Mason Mathias claimed three gold medals in the 54th AHSAA State Swimming & Diving Championships Saturday at Auburn University’s James E. Martin Aquatics Center. Mathias won the Class 1A-5A boys 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:41.26 and won the 500-yard freestyle with a … [Read more...]
Vestavia Hills’ Strand Headed to Cross-Country National Finals
Vestavia Hills junior distance runner Ethan Strand will have a chance to become a national champion. Strand finished in sixth place with a time of 15:07 at the Foot Locker Cross Country Championship South Regionals on Nov. 30 in Charlotte, North Carolina, earning an automatic invitation to compete in the National Finals on Dec. 14 in San Diego at Balboa … [Read more...]
Hoover Superintendent Named P.E. Association’s Administrator of the Year
Hoover City Schools Superintendent Kathy Murphy was named the Alabama State Association for Physical Education, Recreation and Dance’s Administrator of the Year for 2019 at the association’s annual fall conference. A former physical education educator, Murphy appeared before a crowd dotted with familiar faces from her past and present at the event, held Nov. 17-18, at the … [Read more...]