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Kenwood Senior Student-Athletes Honored

Travis Jenkins and Alyssa Williams were named the school's 2012 recipients of the Blanche Drennan Award.

seniors Travis Jenkins and Alyssa Williams each left their mark at the Essex school.

Jenkins and Williams recently concluded their very productive high school athletics careers and school officials made sure to recognize their contributions by recently naming them the 2012 recipients of the Blanche Drennan Award.

The award is the highest honor given out by Kenwood’s athletics department, school athletics director Derek Maki said. The Blanche Drennan Award is given in appreciation for “the unselfish time a male and female athlete has made for Kenwood’s interscholastic program,” Maki said.  

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Jenkins became Kenwood’s first state track and field champion since 1978 when he at the Class 4A state meet last weekend at Morgan State.

Jenkins, who will attend Delaware State, was also the Bluebirds' top rusher on the team and the starting point guard on the team as he led the latter to its first winning record in a decade.

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Williams was a versatile player on the soccer and softball teams. As a member of the soccer team, Williams helped lead Kenwood to an 11-5 record last fall before losing a hard-fought game at Catonsville in the . Williams plans on attending , where she hopes to play softball.

The Blanche Drennan Award was named after a physical education teacher and coach at Kenwood during World War II.

Maki said for two of Drennan’s 10-year tenure at Kenwood she was the only physical education teacher at the school and taught boys and girls since the male teachers were fighting in the war. Maki added Drennan also coached boys' soccer and basketball and girls' field ball, basketball and volleyball.


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