Taylor Hasty has chosen to leave his jobs of baseball coach and athletic director at his alma mater, Bryan College, to be the athletic director at Silverdale Baptist Academy in Chattanooga. His baseball Lions were ranked No. 9 in the NAIA and finished 41-17 and Appalachian Athletic Conference regular-season champions this past spring. Bryan won just six games in his first season as head coach but 326 for his 10-year tenure. The college in Dayton has been Hasty's world since high school, as he went from starting on the first Bryan baseball team in 17 years to serving as captain for three seasons, setting the school record with 332 career innings pitched and then working as assistant coach and admissions counselor for two years before becoming the head coach in the summer of 2008. He added the AD role in August 2013. "It has been the greatest honor of my life to be here at Bryan both as a student and a staff member," Hasty said in a Bryan web post. "The Lord has shaped me and my family in countless ways. God is moving us on from this special place, but Bryan College will forever be close to our hearts."
Of his new venture, Hasty said in a Silverdale Facebook post, "SBA is full of amazing people who have worked together to make it a wonderful place to partner with parents in the education of their children." He takes over as high school AD for Bubba Simmons, who has moved to a position in the admissions department of the K-12 school. "God has continued to grow the athletic program here at Silverdale, and the hiring of Coach Hasty is another exciting point of that growth," high school principal Mickey Hammel said in the Facebook post. "Coach Hasty's passion for the Lord, athletics, students and coaches is very evident. The experience and leadership that Coach Hasty brings will be invaluable in leading our athletic program."
Swimming
* The Baylor Swim Club's Addison Smith won the girls' 800-meter freestyle in 8:54.55 at the USA Swimming Futures meet Thursday night in Cary, North Carolina, and won the 200 free in 2:02.76 on Friday, when she was second in the 100 butterfly. She was the high-point senior girl with four individual event wins two weeks ago in the Southeastern Championships in Knoxville, where teammate Ellie Waldrep won three events and Cecilia Porter had a first and a second. Porter was second in the 100 breaststroke Friday in 1:11.47 to the winner's 1:11.45, and Waldrep joined Smith in the final eight of the 100 fly but was disqualified.
* The Baylor Swim Club's Jack Kirby finished sixth Friday evening at 56.75 seconds in the "A" final of the 100 backstroke in the Speedo Junior National Championships at Irvine, California, and McCallie/GPS Aquatics' Jake Marcum was second in the "C" final in 56.71. Kirby was timed at 56.76 and Marcum at 57.48 in the preliminaries. McCallie/GPS's Max Ransom and Ethan Bevill were part of a Southeastern Swimming victory in the 15-18 boys' 400 freestyle relay Thursday at the Southern Zone Age Group meet in Midland, Texas, where Ransom was second in the 100 free, teammate Grayson Payne won the 15-18 girls' 200 back and anchored the third-place 400 free relay, Sam Powe was third in the 13-14 boys' 200 back and Dalton's Roman Valdez was third in the 13-14 boys' 100 free and anchored a second-place 400 free relay.
Basketball
* Covenant College has hired Caleb Poston as the assistant coach for Skylar Bareford with the women's basketball team. Poston succeeds Katie Tingle, who left to pursue other career options, according to Covenant's Friday release. A 2016 graduate of the University of Cincinnati, where he was a student manager and intern for the director of basketball operations while majoring in sports administration, Poston has spent the last two seasons as a graduate assistant with the Xavier women's program. He was the video coordinator and helped with practices, advance scouting and recruiting. "He brings high-level experience, a commitment to serving and leading well and a passion for using basketball to disciple young women in their faith," Bareford said in the release. Said Poston: "I'm beyond blessed to have this opportunity to come to Covenant. I knew as soon as I stepped on campus this is where God wanted me to be."
Fishing
* The Pickens County (Georgia) duo of Spencer Childers and Owen Moss rose from third to first place Friday in the Bassmaster High School National Championship at Kentucky Lake. The four bass they weighed totaled 16 pounds, 5 ounces to make their total 34-14. The top 12 boats continue today. Grundy County's Grant Dees and Ben Freeman are ninth at 25-2, and Walker Valley's Corbett Sands and Lance Frazier finished 16th at 21-15.