West Campus

Mrs. Brooklyn Smith is a Mobile, AL native who loves The Lord, her city, and her students. After graduating high school, she stayed local to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Secondary English Education from University of South Alabama. While in college, she worked on the USA Football staff as an equipment manager and at Saraland Middle School as a Paraprofessional Educator. Prior to teaching at Cottage Hill, Mrs. Smith taught at W.P. Davidson High School, her alma mater. She is excited to still be able to say, “Go Warriors!”  

Mrs. Smith is married to her husband, Collier Smith, and together they have a sweet golden retriever named Murphy. Mrs. Smith loves the Warrior family and looks forward to many more years of teaching young believers and those who will one day come to faith in Christ. She believes that there is no greater joy than planting Gospel-centered seeds of encouragement in teenagers, one class period at a time.  

As a veteran English teacher, Mrs. Jones has taught middle school and high school English in several states, in Europe, and online for the Alabama State Department of Education. Her teaching assignments encompass regular, honors, and advanced placement language arts. Upon graduating from the University of Mobile, she began her teaching experience at Davidson High School and subsequently moved to a Georgia school system. Almost two years later, her husband’s new assignment in West Point, New York gave her an opportunity to start graduate school at the C.W. Post Graduate School of Long Island University. After three enriching years in the Hudson Valley area, she moved to Germany where she taught high school English for the Department of Defense. While living in Bavaria, she enjoyed touring most countries in Western Europe before moving to Washington, D.C. During her husband’s tenure at the Pentagon, she experienced a diverse classroom of international students as an English teacher in Fairfax County.  Before professionally relocating to a rural Louisiana school system, she enhanced her teaching certification with additional graduate classes from the University of Virginia and George Mason University. Mrs. Jones returned to “Home Sweet Alabama” to teach English at Murphy High School as a highly qualified English teacher. In 2020, she retired from the Mobile County Public School System. Her Alabama home is now close to Cottage Hill Christian Academy where she says she is blessed to be a faculty member. 

Amber Threadgill graduated from the University of South Alabama with bachelor's degree in secondary education and history, with an Honors Program distinction. She has been a middle school educator for the tenure of her career, teaching 6th through 8th grades at three different schools, but she is beyond excited to begin a new journey of teaching high school students.

Mrs. Threadgill is married to her husband of almost 15 years, Kevin, who is also an educator. She has three daughters. A great passion of Mrs. Threadgill's is music-she plays the clarinet and currently serves in the worship ministry at Cottage Hill. She also plays in the Mobile Pops. When she's not at school, Mrs. Threadgill loves to spend time with her family, her dog Lulu, and gardening (or trying to save all the plants).

Krista Womble is a native of Mobile, AL where she graduated from John Shaw High School as a standout softball and volleyball player winning many awards including Mobile County Athlete of the Year, Mobile All-County Team (3 years), Mobile Press-Register Super 12, Kiwanis Club Player of the Year, and United States Marine Corp Distinguished Athlete Award under Coach Kathi Smith. She teaches high school history and serves as the Varsity Softball Coach. 

Krista studied and played junior college ball for Bishop State Community College in Mobile, AL, and was a NJCCC All-American. She then transferred and played NCAA softball at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, AL winning 2 conference championships, and completed her Bachelor's in Political Science with minors in English and History. Krista also has a Master's Degree in Public Administration from Troy University.

Post graduate school, Krista met her husband Seth while working in advertising at AT&T. They have four children. After establishing residency in Georgia and briefly in Louisiana, she and her family made their way back home to Mobile in 2020. As a family, they love to attend Cottage Hill Baptist Church and volunteer in the children's ministry. The Womble kids also love staying active in all CHCA Sports activities including YDL Cheer, Softball, Football, Soccer, and Baseball and Football. 

Prior to teaching at CHCA, Krista spent 15 years working in advertising, marketing, and corporate training for AT&T, along with coaching elite travel softball across the country. She is now a part of the Marucci Patriots organization, where she heads up the Gulf Coast region and handles college recruiting and social media for the entire organization.

Krista has loved the relationships she has been able to build with her students and the athletes she coaches at CHCA. She looks forward to being able to make an impact on our young adults by leading them through their studies of the government in a Christian environment and teaching our athletes to be Christ-like leaders and mentors as they venture out into the world. 

Mrs. Shaw teaches biology, zoology, and forensic science. She has a Bachelor of Science in Zoology from Auburn University and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of South Alabama. She also has an Associate's Degree in Culinary Arts. In 2022, Mrs. Shaw earned an Alternative Master of Education: Secondary Science from the University of South Alabama. She loves to learn and share her love of science with her students. Mrs. Shaw and her husband, David, have been married for 25 years and have 5 children, three of whom attended CHCA.

Mrs. Kimberly Tharp loves being a Cottage Hill Warrior!  A lifelong Mobilian, she attended Cottage Hill Baptist School from K4 through the 8th grade. Mrs. Tharp remained a Warrior at Davidson High School through graduation, when she became a University of Southern Mississippi Golden Eagle. A passion for technology led Mrs. Tharp to the University of South Alabama for her Master's degree in Instructional Design with technology. Mrs. Tharp and her husband Randy have been married 25 years and have 3 children. Mrs. Tharp believes she is blessed to have Cottage Hill as an important part of her life as a student, a parent, and now a teacher for over 15 years.

Mrs. Olsen has a degree in Math and Middle School Education from Meredith College, an all women’s college in Raleigh, North Carolina, and has been a teacher for over 20 years. She and her family moved to Mobile in 2008 after living in North Carolina and Guatemala. Her husband, Bob, is a professor at the University of Mobile, where her two oldest kids, Anna and Peter, both graduates of CHCA, attend. Their twins, Ellie and ZZ, attend CHCA.

Prior to her transition to the West Campus, she previously taught Math and Spanish for 6 years at the Middle School.

Lee Everett graduated from the University of South Alabama with a Bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education and a Masters of Education from the University of West Alabama. He has been teaching and coaching football for 30 years and began teaching Driver’s Education in 2002. The most rewarding part of teaching Driver’s Education is instilling proper and safe habits while observing students as they gain confidence in the driving task. He and his wife, Wendy, proudly have five grown children. Although they are empty nesters, they have two golden retriever dogs who keep them very busy!  In their spare time, they enjoy boating, hiking, and traveling to new places. Everett is excited to join the Warrior family and teach in a Christian environment.

Ms. Stabler graduated from the University of South Alabama with a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts. As a member of the Bay Area Art Educators, Mobile Art Association, and the Mobile Watercolor and Graphics Society, she enjoys promoting students' work in the area and showcasing the many talents of CHCA students!