Sports Archive

Six points doesn’t seem like much. But when it’s the separation between Navarre’s volleyball team and district championship glory, it might as well be as wide as the Grand Canyon.

Raider volleyball coach Ryan Davenport will often remind his team of the 15-9 loss to Niceville in the final game of a wild five-set thriller for the title last October.

Preston Barnett was mad when he found out he had been cut from the baseball team his freshman year at Navarre.

It’s a natural feeling to have after working hard for a tryout only to come up empty.

Former Navarre Raider Dante Wright is listed as one of the top players in the Mountain West Conference heading into the 2022 college football season.

Wright is entering his fourth year with the Colorado State Rams and is tabbed as the 16th-best player in the MWC, according to Mountain West Wire.

No check mark was placed in the win-loss column for the Navarre football team Friday night.

What was determined for the Raiders, though, in their preseason Kickoff Classic against West Florida Tech was that they aren’t where they want to be as a team just yet.

Josh Carter has used the time on his journey back to football wisely.

He has strengthened not just his body but also his spirituality, and along the way, the former Navarre Raider has also picked up another interest, one that shines a light on Carter being more than an athlete.

The University of West Florida football team will begin another season nationally ranked.

The Argos check in at No. 11 in the American Football Coaches Association NCAA Division II preseason poll.

The UWF women’s soccer team is picked to finish as the runner-up in the Gulf South Conference this season.

The Argos are coming off a year where they went 14-3-3 and reached the regional final of the NCAA tournament. That postseason appearance was their 18th in program history.

The University of West Florida men’s soccer team heads into the new season as the favorite to win the Gulf South Conference championship.

Former Navarre Raider Jack Patching is on the roster for the Argos, who went 12-3-4 last season and reached the NCAA tournament for the eighth time in program history.

Taylor Gardner tore a patellar tendon in the spring and the injury left him facing a long road back.

But as the Navarre kicker and punter gears up for his senior season, he is thankful to be back at it doing what loves and is all in on making this year his best one yet.

Navarre head coach Mary Moorer lets her swimmers know they only have eight laps to go during an early morning practice session at the Pullum YMCA.

Her swimmers don’t see that as being too much to handle, but when added out-of-pool work is mixed into the workout, it changes things.