By Lee Davis Spain Park’s patented fourth quarter magic showed up again in the Class 7A football finals against McGill-Toolen. This time, the ending wasn’t quite what Jaguar fans had seen in the past. Trailing the Yellow Jackets 14-3 in the fourth quarter, Spain Park rallied for nine points before falling 14-12 on a cool night at Bryant-Denny Stadium on the University of … [Read more...]
Sign Language: Random Road Placard Sent Jags’ Cunningham to Swimming Stardom
By Lee Davis A random ride along U.S. 280 as a pre-teen may have started Rac, short for Rachel, Cunningham on the path to become one of Alabama’s best high school swimmers. Cunningham, a junior at Spain Park, remembers the moment as if it had happened yesterday. “I was about 11 years old and, to be honest, I was a pretty typical lazy kid,” she recalled. “I wasn’t serious … [Read more...]
Carr Title: Spartan Star Repeats as Gatorade Winner
By Lee Davis Nobody will ever accuse Sara Carr of having a senior slump. Carr had an amazing junior year in 2014-15, helping lead the Mountain Brook volleyball team to the Class 7A championship and being named the Gatorade Player of the Year. On top of that, she averaged more than 20 points a game as a member of the varsity basketball team and was named the Over the Mountain … [Read more...]
Fallon-Apollo
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Fallon announce the engagement of their daughter, Greer Gilmore Fallon, to Jeremy Charles Apollo, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Apollo of Hoover. The bride-elect is a 2009 graduate of Vestavia Hills High School and a 2013 graduate of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she received a bachelor’s degree in marketing. She is employed at a local bank as … [Read more...]
Eddings-Garber
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen John Henninger of Vestavia Hills and Mr. William Miller Eddings of Birmingham announce the engagement of their daughter, Amy Elizabeth Eddings, to Michael Stephen Garber Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Stephen Garber Sr. of Huntsville. The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Mrs. Gene G. Hurst and the late Mr. Hurst of Trussville, and the late Mr. and … [Read more...]