Col. Irons distance trophy awarded

Mountain Brook High School’s most outstanding long-distance track athletes have won the Colonel George V. Irons Distance Trophy presented at the school’s Awards Day in May.

William L. Irons, Iron Sr.’s son, presented this year’s trophies to Payton Ballard and Ann Sisson at Mountain Brook High School’s annual awards assembly.

The trophy is given in honor of Dr. George V. Irons Sr., who broke distance records throughout the South as captain of the University of Alabama Distance Team in the 1920s. The Colonel George V. Irons Distance Trophy is awarded  to the top distance track athlete who has excelled in scholarship and citizenship.

In 1978 Irons was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame. He is the only University of Alabama track athlete and only distance athlete ever inducted in the hall of fame in its 45-year history.