Mountain Brook’s Hannah Parant was selected 2023 Gatorade state volleyball Player of the Year

The award celebrates the nation’s top high school athletes for excellence on the court, in the classroom and in the community.

The 6-foot-2 senior setter led the Spartans to a 46-5 record and the Class 6A state championship this season. Parant finished with 1,170 assists, averaging 8.4 per set, a program-record 91 aces and 311 digs. She added 221 kills and 53 blocks. An American Volleyball Coaches Association First Team All-American, she concluded her prep career with the most aces (315) and assists (4,408) in team history.

“Hannah Parant is special,” said Homewood coach Andie Freedman. “She elevated the Mountain Brook offense to the highest levels we’ve seen from that program. She was very hard to stop both offensively via setter dumps and with her distribution decisions.”

Parant has volunteered locally by collecting Christmas gifts for underprivileged children. She also has donated her time packing meals for the underprivileged with Stop Hunger Now, and passes out meals to those in need through her church at Thanksgiving.

Parant has maintained a 3.77 GPA in the classroom. She’s made a verbal commitment to attend the University of Alabama, where she will play volleyball beginning this fall.

She joins recent Gatorade state volleyball Player of the Year winners Anna Grace Sparks (2022, McGill-Toolen), Audrey Rothman (2021, Spain Park), Rya McKinnon (2020, Hoover) and Grace Carr (2019, Mountain Brook).