Darron Patterson

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A native of Plateau … also known as Africatown … Alabama, Darron is the great-great grandson of Clotilda survivor Pollee “Kupollee” Allen.

He is an alumnus of the University of Texas at El Paso (Mass Communications) and was the first Black sportswriter at the Mobile Press Register. He is a four-time Associated Press and Alabama Press Association award winner for "Best Story of the Year,“ and was also feature writer at The Detroit News for that city’s four major sports teams … NFL’s Lions, NBA’s Pistons,  Major League Baseball's Tigers and the National Hockey League’s Red Wings. Darron was also the first African American to cover NASCAR and Indy Car racing circuits for a major metropolitan daily newspaper (Detroit News). He later served as Director of Communications for the City of Detroit's Resource Management System for three years, before returning home as Director of Communications for the United States Sports Academy in Daphne. Also an award-winning technical writer, Darron was senior technical writer for Roush Technical Services, owned by NASCAR Racing legend Jack Roush, ThyssenKrupp Steel, and is now the Document Control Specialist and Senior Technical Writer for Airbus, one of the world’s leading aircraft manufacturers. He serves on the board of directors of the Mobile Sports Hall of Fame, is on the advisory board of the Mobile Sports and Entertainment Group and is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Darron is married to the former Sandy Grimes.