Spain Park Athletics

Russell Whitaker joined the baseball staff and a US History teacher at Spain Park in 2009 as the head JV coach and has remained in that position since.  Before joining the staff at Spain Park, he was the head baseball coach at Brookwood High School in Tuscaloosa County and Aberdeen High School in Mississippi.  He was also an assistant coach at Hamilton High School and Caledonia High School in Mississippi.  He is married to Kristi Martin Whitaker and has two daughters.  Allie Whitaker is a junior at Spain Park and Maggie is a 7th grader at Berry Middle School.