Team Detail Bayside Academy

Outdoor Track & Field - Girls Varsity

2024 - 2025

Head Coach: Joseph Swagart

BAYSIDE ACADEMY’S CORE VALUES

Excellence, Responsibility, Integrity, Leadership, Community, Respect

BAYSIDE ACADEMY GIRLS 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 5A 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.

Spring 2025

Going into the 5A AHSAA State meet, our young women were strong contenders for a top four finish. Our women scored 77 points to finish third overall. We have 15 All-State individualists and two All-State relays. Senior Kate Huey led the way for our team with a second place finish in the 100 meter hurdles and 300 meter hurdles, a seventh place finish in the 400 meter dash, and ran a relay leg of our women's fifth place finish in the 4x400 meter relay. Other individual medalists include seniors Annie Midyett in the 800 meter run (second) and Madeline Dudley in high jump (second). Our women's 4x800 meter relay finished second with relay members senior Catherine Doyle, junior Shelby Fargason, and 8th graders Avery Therrell and Ansleigh Smith.

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 15 consecutive years and a total of 31 times. Our young women have finished in the Top Twelve two times, winning a State title six times.

2024 AHSAA 4A State Champions
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
2025	5A	3rd
2024	4A	1st
2023	4A	2nd
2022	3A	1st
2021	3A	3rd
2020	3A	No Season - COVID
2019	3A	8th
2018	3A	4th
2017	3A	3rd
2016	3A	9th
2015	3A	7th

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 5A. Over this time, our young women have had a total of 129 All State Medalists with 47 of those being State Champions. We have had 40 All State Relay Medalists with 16 of those being All State Relay Championship Teams. State Champions by event and year are listed below:

Avery Therrell: 800m run '24
Catherine Doyle: 1600m run '24, 3200m run '24
4x400 meter relay '24: Kate Huey, Stella Parks, Annie Midyett, Avery Therrell
4x800 meter relay '24: Amelia Wells, Grace Dawson, Annie Midyett, Avery Therrell
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

Madeline Dudley '25: Lafayette College ‘20: Samford University
Alex Cook ‘20: Samford University
Amber Mason ‘18: Spring Hill College

HEAD COACH JOE SWAGART

Completing his 19th season as a head coach for young men’s and women’s cross country and track & field at Bayside Academy and previously at Cottage Hill Christian Academy, Coach Joe Swagart's teams and athletes are coached to give their best and compete at their fullest potential. With eight AHSAA State Championships, 15 AHSAA State Runners-Up, and three AISA State Runners-Up, we do our best to help our teams excel regardless of the program's AHSAA classification. Coach Swagart has been recognized as the Press-Register Coach of the Year three times and the USSTFCCCA Girls Cross Country Coach of the Year in 2021. Coach Swagart has a USATF Level 1 Certification and has completed the USTFCCCA Endurance Coach Certification.

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, each who attends Bayside Academy: Owen, Isaac, and Emersyn.