Spain Park’s Brock Bradley, the 2024 Under the Lights All-South Metro Player of the Year, returns for his senior season. He is shown at a preseason photo shoot at Heardmont Park on July 10.

When Tim Vakakes was hired as the head football coach at Spain Park High School in late 2021, Brock Bradley was in eighth grade.

Bradley had ambitions to not only become the Spain Park quarterback one day, but to make his mark.

Upon the new head coach meeting the student-athlete who would do just that in a couple years’ time, Bradley had a message for the program’s new coach that gave insight into a maturity beyond his years.

Vakakes recalled, “When I first met him in eighth grade, he said, ‘Coach, I want to change this place with you. When I leave, I want it to be a different Spain Park football pr

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