MBHS athletes receive Kiwanis awards

The Kiwanis Club of Birmingham presented its 2014 Athletic Awards program in May at the Harbert Center. The Club has been honoring area senior scholar athletes since 1922. 

Three Mountain Brook High School students were among the recipients of 15 individual sport awards, three individual awards and two school awards given.

Center fielder Rebecca Blitz won Outstanding Softball Player. Rebecca led the MBHS team with .583 batting average, .659 on-base percentage, 34 stolen bases in 2014. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russ Blitz, she will attend Indiana University on a softball scholarship.

Tatum Jackson won the Outstanding Girls Golfer award. Tatum placed in the top three individually in the state tournament the last four years. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Jackson, she will play golf for Rutgers University. 

Carlee Petro won the Girls Tennis Award. She will be attending Birmingham-Southern College next year.

In addition to the individual awards, MBHS Athletic Director Terry Cooper accepted the Roy Bragg All-Sports Trophy on behalf of the school. It is the second year in a row that MBHS has won this award.