Remembering one of the state’s most dominant runs of championship success

It’s not only one of the most dominant runs in Alabama high school sports, but it’s etched in national volleyball history.

AL.com fans overwhelmingly voted Bayside Academy’s record of 21 consecutive championships as the most unbreakable record in AHSAA volleyball history.

Tuesday’s poll of the most unbreakable records, which included five additional historic marks, saw the Admirals’ championship streak garner 92% of the overall vote.

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Bayside Academy’s mark of 21 state championships is the longest in high school girls volleyball history and one of 31 programs in the nation to win at least 20 state titles in a row.

The longest streak of state titles by any team is Jackson (Miss.) Prep’s boys and girls swimming team, which won 45 titles from 1974 to 2018.

Bayside Academy’s streak is 21 of the program’s AHSAA-record 31 titles, with 28 coming under Alabama High School Sports Hall of Fame inductee Ann Schilling.

A historic streak began in the 2002 season, when Bayside Academy was a Class 2A program after previously winning eight state titles in Class 1A and two more in 2A; the Admirals’ first championship came in 1981, 11 years after the school was founded.

The current count of Bayside Academy’s state championships by classification is…

Class 6A: 1

Class 5A: 2

Class 4A: 2

Class 3A: 10

Class 2A: 9

Class 1A: 6

Before the streak was snapped with a loss to eventual Class 6A champion Mountain Brook in the 2023 state semifinals, Bayside’s 2001 championship loss to Geraldine was the last time the Admirals didn’t come home with a championship.

Now, the Admirals are among the ranks of Class 7A and playing in their seventh classification as a program.

Last season saw the Admirals go 32-12 with a loss to eventual Class 7A runner-up Bob Jones in the state tournament, also landing a pair of all-state nods in Grier Broughton and Haley Robinson.

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