Records pile up for Spartan basketball

Records and milestones continue to be a regular occurrence for the Mountain Brook High School basketball program.

At the conclusion of the regular season, the boys team sat on a 33-game home winning streak.

On Feb. 5, Sara Carr broke a program record for the girls team with 40 points in a single game.

Jack Kline will graduate this season and move on to play basketball at UAH. He will leave Mountain Brook with over 700 rebounds and as the winningest player in program history (breaking Patrick Keim’s mark of 111 wins).

“It means a lot,” Kline said. “Coming into this season, I knew that all of those achievements would be possible to attain and I kind of set them as personal goals for the season.”

Freshman standout Trendon Watford played on the varsity team at Shades Valley as an 8th grader before transferring to Mountain Brook, and has already accumulated over 1,000 points in his young career.

“It feels great. I’ve put in a lot of work to get to this point and have to thank my teammates for finding me and the coaching staff for getting me the ball in the right spots,” Watford said.

The man responsible for leading the Spartans to such heights is Bucky McMillan, the head coach in his eighth season atop the program. He reached 200 wins in a buzzer-beating win over Ramsay on Jan. 29.

“It means that we have been consistently very good year-in and year-out,” McMillan said. “That’s what I am the most proud of…is that every year if you’ve come to a Mountain Brook game, you have observed a team on the floor that should make everyone associated with our school and everyone in our community proud.”