Excellence, Responsibility, Integrity, Leadership, Community, Respect

 

The goal of our program is to instill the core values of Bayside Academy daily to help our student-athletes be the best person they can be on and off the golf course. Our program competes in the AHSAA at the 4A classification with athletes in the 7th through 12th grade. We work hard to encourage and help our student-athletes participate in more than one sport. The athlete is also expected to give his best daily in any field of endeavor, athletic and academic. TEAM is our focus, and at the same time, we push for individual excellence. Golf is very individualized yet each individual is urged to perform at his best to help the team.

The 2024 season saw the boys program grow to 32 golfers, including 15 players on our varsity and JV teams this year. The varsity team competed in six tournaments vs 3A-7A teams from around our state and played in two dual matches. We hosted the Dumbwaiter Invitational at Steelwood and the Admiral Invitational at Rock Creek this year. The team finished the season at Sectional and Sub-State runner-up as well at finishing third (4A) in the AHSAA State Tournament.

 

“We live a pretty incredible life” – Henry Wise – HAW5 Bayside Golfer 2016

 

INDIVIDUAL STATE CHAMPIONS

• 2022 Cole Komyati (3A)
• 2015 William Buhl (3A)
• 2014 William Buhl (3A)
  

Coach Mark Lasseter became the head boys and girls golf coach in 2013. He turned over the coaching duties for our girls team to Coach Caroline Beebe Skadow '12 in 2017. Coach Lasseter's boys teams won the AHSAA State Championship in 2013, 2014, and 2022 and were Runners-up in 2015, 2021, and 2023. Coach Lasseter has helped many young people develop a passion for golf while also developing them to be better people, representing Bayside Academy, their team, and their family in a manner of class and dignity. 

 

Coach Lasseter is also an assistant coach of the varsity football team and serves as the Associate Athletic Director at Bayside.

 

Mark has been teaching and coaching for more than 40 years. He is married to Mischelle Waldrop Lasseter and has four adult children (Haley, Brooks, Landon '14, and Bryant).