LPMS names Coaches of the Year

Liberty Park Middle School’s Jonathan Jeff received the cross country Coach of the Year award at a recent banquet. Now a seventh-grade pre-algebra teacher and cross-country head coach, Jeff ran cross-country and track and field at Samford University. He began running during his senior year in high school. 

Jeff began his teaching and coaching career at Hewitt-Trussville Middle School in 2004 and then joined Liberty Park in 2008. He said he feels privileged that he was one of the original teachers at LPMS and had the opportunity to create the school’s cross-country and track and field teams in 2008. The first cross-country team at LPMS consisted of only 17 boys and has continued to grow every year.

Jennifer Isbell won the Metro Coach of the Year award for girls’ tennis. 

Isbell has coached the boys and girls tennis teams for Liberty Park Middle School for the past three years in addition to teaching sixth-grade social studies and coaching volleyball.

Isbell played varsity tennis at Shades Valley High School. Before coming to Vestavia, she taught two years at Auburn Junior High School. 

-Submitted by Linda Rummell