Good Hope’s Ivey Maddox delivered all season long for the Raiders.
This past Saturday, the senior star and UAH signee took her praiseworthy talents across state lines, providing 15 points on 5-of-9 shooting — including a 4-of-7 clip from beyond the arc — to help Alabama to a 65-59 win over
Mississippi in the 34th annual Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Basketball Classic.
She also added two rebounds and a steal for Alabama, which has now won seven straight in the series.
Maddox averaged 20.3 points and 6.1 rebounds for Good Hope during the 2023-24 campaign and played a crucial role in guiding the Raiders to their first-ever Class 4A state championship.
Cold Springs’ Calvert, St. Bernard’s Tafazoli announced as Bryant-Jordan regional winners
Cold Springs’ Ciara Calvert and St. Bernard’s Amelia Tafazoli were among 102 seniors around the state selected as regional winners when the Bryant-Jordan Student-Athlete Program released last week its initial wave of annual awards.
Calvert (Class 2A, Region 6) and Tafazoli (Class 1A, Region 7) will be recognized at the 37th annual Bryant-Jordan awards banquet to be held Monday, April 15, at the Birmingham-Sheraton Hotel.
According to the release, each regional recipient will receive a $3,000 scholarship. From the regional recipients, the Bryant-Jordan selection committee will choose class winners and the overall recipients of the Larry D. Striplin Jr., Scholar-Athlete state award and the Ken & Betty Joy Blankenship Achievement state award, respectively. The class award recipients will receive an additional $3,500 scholarship and the two individuals named state award recipients will receive an additional $4,000 in scholarship funds.
More than $10M in scholarship funds has been distributed to student recipients by the Bryant-Jordan Scholarship Program since its inception in 1988.
Each regional recipient will also be eligible for other special scholarships to be awarded.
Good Hope secures runner-up finish at Lake Guntersville
Good Hope’s fishing team finished runner-up at last weekend’s Alabama B.A.S.S. Nation High School Tournament on Lake Guntersville.
Eli Page/Jet Swann (eighth) and Ross Clark/Zach Arnold (15th) placed inside the Top 20 while Conner Clark/Colten Whatley also contributed.
The Raiders competed against a 152-boat field and their superb performance qualified them for the state championship, which is scheduled for May.