A new year brings the same mentality for the Navarre Raider track team.
The expectation is greatness, according to head coach Tony Carter, who hopes to see as many athletes as possible earn a state meet berth.
Quentin Randolph is back in the Indoor Football League, and this time he’ll play in a city that fits his big-time personality.
Randolph, a former Navarre and University of West Florida star, is taking his talents to Las Vegas to play for the Knight Hawks, a second-year team in the IFL.
One goal was all Navarre needed in a tightly-contested, physical District 1-6A soccer semifinal on a chilly Friday night at Bennett C. Russell Stadium
One goal to tie the game. One goal to keep hope alive. One goal to potentially extend the life of the soccer season for the Raiders.
A Friday night opener and a road game against a Division I Florida A&M are among the highlights of the 2023 University of West Florida football schedule.
Coming off the third NCAA Division II national semifinal appearance in program history in 2022, the Argos kick off the 2023 campaign on Sept. 1 against Kentucky Wesleyan at Pen Air Field.
Mateo Soto is only a sophomore, but in a season that hasn’t been easy for Navarre’s boys soccer team, he’s done his best to be a leader.
“It can be uncomfortable at times being younger, but I try to help out and ignore my age,” Soto said.
Averie Prochazka stood near the top of the 3-point line and decided to just shoot the ball. She’s not one of the players typically filling up the stat sheet, but on this night, the senior role player took charge.
Prochazka launched the ball up from beyond the arc and sent it swishing through the net early in the first quarter Thursday night.
Joe Surratt is on the ground floor at Central and he couldn’t be more excited.
Named the head coach of a start-up Jaguar football team that begins play in 2023, Surratt is looking forward to building the program up.
Sarah Shipley smiled as she popped off of the bench after her final lift, clenching her fists and stretching out her arms before leaping over to her teammates to celebrate a personal exclamation point kind of moment at the District 1-3A girls weightlifting meet Wednesday afternoon in Niceville.
Shipley hit a new PR on the bench with a 185-pound lift, willing herself to get the bar up despite the extra strength it took to do it and clinching a district championship in traditional along the way.
Getting to the top is tough. Staying there is even harder.
Navarre’s girls weightlifting team knows that as well as anyone. The two-time reigning state champion Raiders lost their own invitational a few weeks ago, finishing as the runner-up to Pace, and head coach Garrett Bagley said at the time he hoped it would serve as motivation.
Wins haven’t been easy to come by this season for Navarre’s boys soccer team. A tough schedule and a young team have played a part in that.
But the Raiders had something to celebrate last Tuesday night at home on the turf of Bennett C. Russell Stadium, beating county rival Pace 4-1.
