Behind a pair of relay champions and four more individual medals, the Bayside Academy girls’ team earned its first AHSAA State Indoor Track Championship Friday in Birmingham.
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Behind a pair of relay champions and four more individual medals, the Bayside Academy girls’ team earned its first AHSAA State Indoor Track Championship Friday in Birmingham.
The Admirals won the Class 4A-5A division with 61 points which was nearly 20 more points than runner-up Whitesburg Christian’s 45 points.
Senior Annie Midyett, eighth-grader Avery Therrell, senior Kate Huey and freshman Stella Parks registered a 4:13.06 in the 4x400-meter relay to earn the squad’s first gold medal of the competition. Midyett, Therrell, eighth-grader Ansleigh Smith and senior Catherine Doyle teamed up and crossed the finish line in 9:58.95 to win the 4x800-meter relay race. Both marks were also good enough for new Bayside Academy school records according to athletic.net.
Midyett completed a hat trick of medals with an individual silver from the 800-meter run with a time of 2:24.83. Therrell was not far behind her in seventh place with a time of 2:28.23. Midyett was joined on the podium by Lafayette signee senior Madeline Dudley who used a runner-up finish in the high jump thanks to a 5’ 2” clearance. Dudley added a 13th-place finish in the long jump with a mark of 14’ 6”.
The Admirals’ other individual medal winners also came away with school records as junior Shelby Fargason ran the 3200-meter run in 11:32.78 for third place. Doyle was not far behind her in sixth place with a time of 11:54.27. Huey added a bronze medal in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 9.47 and also finished 12th in the 400-meter dash in 1:02.90.
Elberta earns three medals, finishes sixth
Also in Class 4A-5A, the Elberta Warriors came away with multiple individual medalists as the boys’ team finished sixth overall with 27 points.
Senior Damien Cruz helped lead the way with a silver medal in the 60-meter hurdles thanks to a time of 8.52 which also set a school record. Classmate Rosson Duplesis was not far behind with a seventh-place finish in the same race at 9.17.
Fellow senior Charlie Woerner delivered a new school record in the 800-meter run with a time of 1:58.56 for a bronze medal. He added a 14th-place finish in the 400-meter dash at 53.12. In the field events, it was sophomore Sam Smith who took home a bronze medal with a 6’ clearance in the high jump. It tied his previous best which sits second all-time in school history behind Cameron Ossler from the Class of 2024 at 6’ 2”.
Foley’s Foster jumps to new school record, podium finish
With a long jump of 18’ 5.25”, Foley junior Zi’morah Foster not only set a school record but also took home a silver medal from the Class 7A competition. Sophomore Jayda Kinsey used a distance of 16’ 11.25” to register seventh in the same event. Kinsey also added a sixth-place finish in the 60-meter dash at 7.77 to put her second all-time in the Lions’ record book.
Sophomore Nyla Harrison (34’ 4.25” in the shot put) and senior Cooper Hermecz (21’ 0.75” in the long jump) finished just off the podium in fourth individually. Harrison moved into second place all-time in the Foley record book and Hermecz improved to fourth place all-time for the Lions with his new personal best.
Silvernail vaults to bronze for St. Michael
The St. Michael Catholic Cardinals were represented in the pole vault pit by junior classmates Addison Silvernail and Eli Navarre and both logged top-10 performances.
Silvernail earned a bronze medal from Class 4A-5A with a 9’ 6” clearance following a tiebreaker with second-place Kinsey Sackett from Whitesburg Christian and fourth-place Audrey Elrod from Arab. The mark was also good enough for a new St. Michael school record.
Navarre used a 10’ 6” clearance to finish eighth overall for the Cardinals just behind a pair of Elberta Warriors in junior Cody Godwin (12’ for sixth) and senior Elijah Gee (11’ 6” for seventh). Navarre is the Cardinals’ school recordholder in the event at 11’ from earlier this season.
Four from Gulf Shores log top-10 finishes
The Gulf Shores Dolphins had four representatives take home top-10 finishes from their events where the boys’ team finished 20th overall and the girls’ team took 21st in Class 6A.
Freshman Tevonna Campbell helped pace the Gulf Shores girls’ team and registered a 7.97 in the 60-meter dash which was good enough for sixth place. However, it was her preliminary time of 7.94 that set a new school record. With a shot put of 30’ 7.5”, senior Abigail Chamblin moved into second all-time in the Dolphins’ record book and finished 11th overall at the state meet.
Sophomore Carter Davis ran a similarly blazing time in the boys’ 60-meter dash and used a 6.97 in preliminaries to set a new Gulf Shores school record. He followed that up by shaving a hundredth of a second and finished fifth overall in the finals with a new record of 6.96.
Junior Harrison Wright didn’t skip a beat and set a school record in the 800-meter run at 1:59.15 and took home sixth place against the best in Class 6A. Freshman Matt Howe also scored points for the Dolphins in the pole vault with a 12’ clearance for eighth place.
Junior Daniel Foster rounded out Gulf Shores’ efforts with a 43’ 6” shot put that earned 11th place overall.
Watkins runs, Harbin throws to top-five finishes for Fairhope
Two Fairhope Pirates took home top-five individual marks from the Class 7A competition.
Senior Samford signee Ty Watkins blazed a new school record in the 60-meter dash with a time of 6.88 in the preliminaries. He came up just shy of that mark in the finals but used a 6.89 to take home fourth place after he sniffed the 7A state meet record from 2021 at 6.82.
In the field events, it was classmate PJ Harbin who used a 46’ 10.5” shot put to finish fifth overall at the state meet. The mark was also good enough to launch Harbin to fifth place in the Fairhope record book. Junior Will Cooper registered a shot put distance of 44’ 4” to finish 12th overall.
For the Pirates’ girls’ team, junior Lynley Grace Anderson ran to 15th place overall in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:41.75.