Four state titles help Mountain Brook win 2011-12 Metro All-Sports Championship

Dennis Lin, Birmingham News, July 08, 2012 9:45 a.m.

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Tatum Jackson of Mountain Brook watches her drive during the AHSAA Girls 6A Sectional Golf Tournament at Highland Park in April. (The Birmingham News/Joe Songer)

Jackie Clayton started coaching at Mountain Brook High School in 1969. Three years later, he left to become the offensive coordinator at Homewood High, a new school at the time.

From there, he went on to stints at Oak Grove, Shades Valley and Vincent. He has coached baseball, basketball, football, golf and wrestling.

In 1996, he returned to Mountain Brook. Since then, he has coached hundreds of Spartans student-athletes, some of them the children of former proteges.

“I don’t know that I’ve coached the grandkids yet,” Clayton said, laughing.

The way things have gone the past four decades, those grandkids will probably be raising multiple state trophies in, say, the 2040s.

With another four state titles, Mountain Brook earned the Metro All-Sports Championship in The News’ rankings for the 2011-12 school year. After claiming the same distinction last year, the Spartans have successfully defended their crown as the metro-area’s top athletics program.

Mountain Brook’s all-time state trophy count: “140 and counting,” Athletics Director Terry Cooper said.
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