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Outdoor Track & Field - Girls Varsity

2023 - 2024

Head Coach: Joseph Swagart

BAYSIDE ACADEMY’S CORE VALUES

Excellence, Responsibility, Integrity, Leadership, Community, Respect

BAYSIDE ACADEMY BOYS VARSITY OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD

With Bayside Academy’s Mission Statement and Core Values in mind, our goal through Bayside Academy Outdoor Track and Field is to continue the excellence established in the past and press on to achieve our best today. Our program competes in the AHSAA at the 4A classification for athletes in the 7th through 12th grade, from beginners to multiple season performers. Each athlete should seek to do their best, give 100% effort in all that they do, and encourage one another not just in our sport. To do this, we will do all things with TEAM as our focus, although training will be individualized based on the ability and experience of the athlete. Our athletes will not only train together to become better competitors, but learn how and why the training they do develops them into a stronger athlete and person. We will hold to this COMMITMENT as our sense of responsibility and respect to self and others, striving for excellence in all of our endeavors.

These three words and descriptions will be our point of emphasis this year:

Team: We will enjoy what we do with one another, building up one another through common experiences and trials.
Excellence: We will do all things to the best of our ability, disciplined to do all things the right way and all the way.
Commitment: We will always be there for one another, realizing this is what keeps us together and helps us reach our goals.

“To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.”

~ Steve Prefontaine, All-American Distance Runner & Legend

Spring 2023

Going into the 4A AHSAA State meet, our young women pushed hard towards achieving another State Championship. Our women scored 58.5 points, finishing second to Brooks High School who achieved 87.5 points. Sophomore Annie Midyett led the way for our young women, finishing second in the 1600 meter and 3200 meter run, third in the 800 meter run, and helping our young women win the 4x800 meter relay. Other relay members include sophomores Catherine Doyle, Grace Dawson, and Amelia Wells. Sophomore Madeline Dudley placed second in high jump and eighth in triple Jump. Freshman Shelby Fargason placed fourth in the 3200 meter run, Catherine Doyle fifth in the 1600 meter run, Amelia Wells eighth in the 1600 meter run, and junior Catie Sanders eighth in high jump.

THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S OUTDOOR

Women’s Team History

Since the 1989 season, our Outdoor Track & Field young women have finished in the Top Ten 13 consecutive years and a total of 29 times. Our young women have finished in the Top Two 11 times, winning a State title five times.

2023 AHSAA 4A State Runner-Up
2022 AHSAA 3A State Champions
2013 AHSAA 3A State Champions
2012 AHSAA 3A State Champions
2011 AHSAA 3A State Runner-up
2010 AHSAA 3A State Runner-up
1995 AHSAA 1A State Champions
1994 AHSAA 1A State Runner-up
1993 AHSAA 1A State Champions
1992 AHSAA 1A State Runner-up
1991 AHSAA 1A State Runner-up

Year	Classification	Women’s Finish
2023	4A	2nd
2022	3A	1st
2021	3A	3rd
2020	3A	No Season
2019	3A	8th
2018	3A	4th
2017	3A	3rd
2016	3A	9th
2015	3A	7th
2014	3A	3rd

AHSAA All-State Medalist & State Champions

Bayside Academy has participated in AHSAA State meet for Outdoor Track & Field since 1989. During this time, we have competed in the smallest classification, 1A, to our current classification of 4A. Over this time, our young women have had a total of 118 All State Medalists with 44 of those being State Champions. We have had 37 All State Relay Medalists with 14 of those being All State Relay Championship Teams. State Champions by event and year are listed below:

4x800 meter relay '23: Grace Dawson, Amelia Wells, Catherine Doyle, Annie Midyett
Annie Midyett: 800m run '22, 1600m run '22, & 3200m run '22
Leah Jha: 100m hurdles ‘21 & '22
Madeline Dudley: high jump ‘21
4x400 meter relay ‘21: Leah Jha, Madeline Dudley, Annie Midyett, Nina Dowhan
Alex Cook: pole vault ‘19
Catherine West: high jump ’19
Amber Mason: long jump ‘17 & ‘18
Lauren Chastang: shot put ‘17
4x400 meter relay ‘17: Caroline Young, Mary Catherine Branyon, Emily Miller, Darby Kemper
Trista Barry: high jump ‘12, ‘13, & ‘14
Alona Melendez: 100m hurdles ‘10, ‘11, ‘12, & ‘13; 300m hurdles ‘10, ‘11, ‘12, & ‘13; high jump ‘10 & ‘11
Emory Builta: discus ‘11 & ‘13
Shelby Builta: shot put ‘10; discus ‘09, ‘10; javelin ‘09, ‘10
Sophie Bru: pole vault ‘07, ‘08, & ‘09
Caroline Gill: high jump ‘07
Britt Fuller: 200m dash ‘95
Kelli Klein: triple jump ‘95
Ashley Fuller: 800m run ‘93
Alex Leigh: 1600m run ‘91 & ‘92; 3200m run ‘91 & ‘92; long jump ‘92
Women’s 4x100 meter relay: ‘94 & ‘95
Women’s 4x400 meter relay ‘08, ‘11, ‘13, & ‘14
Women’s 4x800 meter relay ‘89, ‘91, ‘92, ‘98, & ‘11

Women’s Indoor Track & Field Top 3 by Event

For all 18 events and the pentathlon, these are our young women’s Top Three by event.

TRACK & FIELD ATHLETES AT THE COLLEGIATE LEVEL

Alex Cook ‘20: Samford University
Amber Mason ‘18: Spring Hill College

HEAD COACH JOE SWAGART

Through 17 seasons as a Head Outdoor Track & Field coach of young men’s and women’s track & field programs (nine years at Bayside Academy and eight years at Cottage Hill Christian Academy), Coach Joe Swagart has helped hundreds of young people develop a passion for track & field while also helping them develop into responsible young adults.

Coach Swagart places an emphasis on team, excellence, and commitment. Success in track & field is found through commitment, discipline, and desire. Individuals on a team show commitment by attending team practices and events, by finishing what they start, and by having patience with the process. Individuals on a team show discipline by how they follow instruction, how they change the way they live (nutrition, sleep, etc.), and how they finish what they start. Individuals on a team show desire by how they compete and train, how they take care of themselves, and how they treat others. When individuals come together with the same purpose, we will compete as a team at the highest level we can. We will commit to a level of excellence that shows we are giving our best in all that we do, that we give 100% in achieving our goals, and by how we encourage each other along the way.

In Coach Swagart’s first two seasons with Cottage Hill, his programs competed in the Alabama Independent School Association (AISA) where his young women’s team finished State Runner-Up in 2008, including nine All-State medalists, three All-State relays, and six individual State Champions. In six seasons with the AHSAA, under Coach Swagart’s leadership, CHCA’s highest team finish occurred in 2014, with his young women finishing 3A AHSAA Runner-Up. The highest young men’s team finish of sixth place occurred in 2011 and 2012. Through those six seasons, Coach Swagart had 22 All-State medalists, five All-State relays, with 10 individual State Champions and two relay champions. He had three different athletes set new State Meet records in the 200 meter dash, triple jump, and pole vault.

In Coach Swagart’s nine seasons with Bayside Academy, the Outdoor Track & Field program has seen tremendous growth. Our young women’s team has finished in the Top Five five times, with a State Championship in 2022 and Runner-Up in 2023. Our young men’s team has been State Runner-up two consecutive seasons (2019 & 2021), hoping to win it in the cancelled 2020 season due to COVID but achieving that feat with a State Championship in 2022. During these nine seasons, Bayside athletes have earned All-State medalists honors 61 times, with 28 of those athletes being individual State Champions. We’ve seen 17 All-State relays, with six of those winning their relay.

Coach Swagart attended college at the University of South Alabama, earning a B.S. in Mathematics & Statistics in 2004 and M. Ed. in Secondary Education in 2018. He is married to Nancy Swagart. He and his wife have three children: Owen, a 7th grader at Bayside Academy; Isaac, a 3rd grader at Bayside Academy; and Emersyn, a PK4 student at Bayside Academy.

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