Troy University Women's Track & Field

Accomplishments as Director 29 Sun Belt Conference Champions 145 All-Conference Performers 60 current School Records since 2015 (34 indoor / 26 outdoor) 4 All American’s Coached 3 Troy University Athletes of the Year Coached 2024 Olympic Qualifier (Cole Stewart) 5 Junior National Qualifiers 2 World Junior Gold Medalists 2 Junior World Championship Qualifiers 2 Gold Medalist in 4x1 10 USA Senior National Qualifiers (Indoor and Out) Served two-year term on the USTFCCCA (Collegiate Track and Field Governing Body) Board of Directors Appointed ESTFCCCA President of Divisiion I Track & Field in 2024-25 Currently Serving on the NCAA Track and Field/Cross Country Rules Committee Marc Davis enters his 12th season as the Director of Track and Field / Cross Country in 2025-26. Davis will also serve as the ESTFCCCA President of Division I Track and Field in the 2024-25 season. Davis’ 11th season with the Trojans saw outstanding individual performances across the board with 11 All-Sun Belt honorees, including a pair on the first team in Kady Schwietz (indoor – pentathlon) and Tydreke Thomas (outdoor – 100m). He also sent three athletes, Thomas, Shanyah Washington and Altwayne Bedward, to the NCAA East Region First Round, where they competed in Jacksonville, Fla. Through the indoor and outdoor season, Davis coached 38 gold medal finishes on the individual side with nine on the relay side for 47 total. Troy hosted the Doc Anderson Invitational for the second straight season, where the progr

The Cunningham File Personal Information Hometown Centreville, Va. Education William and Mary, 1998 (Bachelor's) Playing Career William and Mary, 1994-98 Coaching History 2021-Pres. Troy - Head XC Coach / Assistant T&F Coach 2019-21 Bridgewater - Head XC Coach / Assistant T&F Coach 2016-19 Marymount - Head Coach (XC / T&F) 2014-15 Wellesley - Assistant Coach (XC / T&F) 2013-14 Simmons - Head XC Coach 2005-06 Texas-Pan American - Head XC Coach / Assistant T&F Coach 2003-05 William and Mary - Assistant Coach (XC / T&F) Veteran coach Brian Cunningham begins his fifth season as the Troy cross country head coach and assistant coach for track & field. Year four saw a young team under Cunningham with 12 freshmen and nine sophomores on a 26-player roster. Despite the youth, he led the Trojans to a top-five finish in the season-opener at the JSU Foothills Invitational. The men finished fifth out of 19 teams, with Keith Warner claiming a seventh-place finish for the 5k, while the women finished fourth (5k) as three runners finished in the top-15 via Alexiana Hinote (10th), Lucy Turley (14th) and Arianna Elder (15th). He also coached a sweep in the Sun Belt Runners of the Week as Keith Warner and Alexiana Hinote received the award with a 24th and 28th-place finish at the FSU XC Invitational. As a team, both sides finished sixth in Tallahassee. His third year under the helm saw two top-five finishes for the women and two top-10s for the men at the JSU Foothills Invitational and Huntingdo

Michelle Clayton enters her 12th season at Troy, where she fulfills a dual role for the track and field program as both the throws and strength coach. Clayto...

Coach Rhodes joins the Trojans staff for the 2025-26 season after a five-year career as a sprinter at Grand Valley State. He will assist primarily with the sprints. During his career with the Lakers, Rhodes was a 15-time USTFCCCA All-American. He contributed to 10 GLIAC conference team titles, won five individual GLIAC championships, and was part of two NCAA Division II team national championship squads (2021 outdoor and 2022 indoor). He holds four school records: indoor 400m (47.42), outdoor 400m (45.99), 4x100m relay (39.56), and 4x400m relay (3:06.63), as well as the GLIAC conference record in the 200m (20.61). He graduated from Grand Valley in 2025 with a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in sports psychology at Troy.

Coaching Accomplishments 3 Sun Belt Champion 2 Sun Belt Runner up 3 Sun Belt Conference Scorers 2 NCAA Qualifiers Helped coach the women to a record-setting third-place finish in the 2019 Sun Belt Indoor Championships and second-place finish in the 2020 Sun Belt Indoor Championships Coached her sister, Kady, to the program record and an All-Sun Belt First Team nod at the 2025 Sun Belt Indoor Championships for the heptathlon (3,809) 3 School Records Set Riley Schwietz enters her sixth season as an assistant coach for the Trojans, where she oversees jumps, hurdles, and multis. Schwietz’s fifth season as assistant coach saw her continue the family legacy as she coached her sister Kady to a gold medal at the Sun Belt Conference Indoor Championships for the heptathlon. Her sister broke the Troy program record as an All-Sun Belt First Team member with 3,809 points, breaking her record set in 2017. She also led a bright young freshman in Aaliyah Murphy to the program record in the 400m hurdles with a 59.94 at the Doc Anderson Invitational with three first-place finishes in 2025. This past season, Schwietz helped propel Jaggerd Moore to the fifth highest high jump in Troy history at 2.10m which sent him to the NCAA East Preliminary after claiming five gold medals in 2023. She also coached her sister Kady to a first-place finish at the Samford Challenge with 4,428 points. In her tenure, Schwietz has coached a Sun Belt champion and NCAA qualifier (Maja Kuessner), one Sun Belt Champion

Urte Bacianskaite from Panevezys, Lithuania. Prior K-State and Troy, Bacianskaite competed in the 2017 IAAF World U18 Championships in Nairobi, where she was a bronze medalist in the heptathlon event. Bacianskaite also competed in the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships in Tempere. Bacianskaite competed at Kansas State in the pentathlon and heptathlon. During her time at Kansas State, she earned Second Team All-American honors in the heptathlon for the second year in a row during her third NCAA Championship – the first Wildcat heptathlete to do so. Bacianskaite is No.10 in the K-State all-time top 10 in pentathlon. Bacianskaite medaled and scored multiple times at the Big 12 in heptathlon/pentathlon events. Honors: 2024 Academic All-Big 12 Team 2024 USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete 2024 CSC Academic All-District 2022-23 Academic All-Big 12 Team 2023 USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete 2023 CSC Academic All-District VII 2021-22 Academic All-Big 12 Team 2022 USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete 2020-21 Academic All-Big 12 Team 2019-2020 Academic All-Big 12 Rookie Team She graduated in 2024 with a bachelor's degree in athletic training and rehabilitation science and is currently pursuing a master's degree in sports management at Troy.