Baylor School

Baylor's softball team has a knack for bunching state championships together. The Raiders have won 16 state championships (three in a row twice and Six in a row once) and Coach Kelli Howard Smith '95 has been a part of all of them, as a player on the '93 and '94 teams and as head coach for all the others.

Along with Upper School varsity softball in the spring, Baylor also fields a successful Middle School team for grades 6-8 that plays in the fall.

Fast Facts on Baylor Softball

• Baylor has won state championships 16 times, always in a group of at least two - 1993 and 1994; 2003, 2004, and 2005; 2011, 2012, and 2013; and 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023. There was no state championship in 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions.
• Baylor head coach Kelli Smith '95 has been a part of all 16 state titles - as a player on the '93 and '94 state champs and as head coach of the Red Raiders in the '03, '04, '05, '11, '12, '13, 15, '16, '17, '18, '19, '21 '22, '23  championship seasons. Coach Smith was inducted into the Greater Chattanooga Sports Hall of Fame in 2022 
• First team in TSSAA history to win 8 consecutive TSSAA Championships 

• Ranked #8 in Times Free Press’s Top Sports Dynasties of the past 50 years 

• Sydney Berzon ‘22 (LSU) won Gatorade’s Tennessee Player of the Year award 

Baylor competes in the TSSAA Division II East region.