Mobile/Baldwin Athletic Partnership Announced

Nonprofit Mobile/Baldwin Athletic Partnership, designed to provide needed resources for public school student-athletes in Mobile and Baldwin Counties, kicked off on April 22, AL.com reported. Speaking at Reese’s Senior Bowl Headquarters in Mobile on April 22, partnership board member Curran Foose explained that the organization “started in Birmingham through the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame. They’ve had a lot of success with it there, and [fellow board member Angus Cooper, III] thought we needed something similar here. It’s just a way to give back.” In partnership with the Senior Bowl, the group gave a supply of footballs to multiple high school coaches in attendance. The coaches included Robertsdale’s Kyle Stanford; Baldwin County’s Scott Rials; Williamson’s Shumbe Hunter and Melvin Pete, Jr.; and Vigor’s John McKenzie. Senior Bowl Executive Director Jim Nagy added, “The goal – and Birmingham has taken this program to much bigger places – is moving on to talk about big-ticket items, on-the-field stuff.”