Sports Archive

Hailey Neely has made up for lost time this summer while blazing a path to the next stop in her life as an athlete.

This summer, she ran track for the first time since March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic cut her senior year short, competing for Navarre Xpress.

Even on those July nights when the humidity and heat bordered on unforgiving, there were athletes from Navarre’s boys soccer team putting in work.

Junior Varsity head coach Chris Beckman headed up most of the workouts for the varsity, JV and incoming players, and the group consistently hovered around 20-30 players.

Milton will be the first opponent Navarre’s volleyball team will square off against when it opens the 2021 campaign.

The Raiders and Panthers will battle Aug. 24 in Milton in a 6:30 p.m. match, but one week earlier, Navarre will travel to Pensacola for a pair of preseason matches.

Two games. Two hits.

Not a bad start at all to a pro baseball career for Navarre’s own Michael Sandle.

Shemar James made a decision to change schools and states just weeks before the high school football season kicks off.

He’ll spend his senior season in Florida with the Navarre Raiders, transferring from Mobile Faith Academy in Alabama, and the University of Florida commit talked about that move and more in an interview at the high school Wednesday afternoon.

It is an interesting sports fact that the University of West Florida has won a national championship but never a Gulf South Conference title.

That could change this season as the Argonauts are favored to win the conference crown.

Sebastian Melendez hasn’t played running back for quite some time. He’s spent most of his high school career with the Navarre Raiders as a linebacker.

But he’ll be shifting gears a bit this fall. While Melendez will still be a presence on the defensive side of the ball, he’ll also have the ball in his hands on offense as he splits time at running back.

Nick Brahms can tell you from experience that playing football in the SEC is no walk in the park.

After three seasons of seeing significant time on the field for the Auburn Tigers, most of it as a starter on the offensive line, the former Navarre Raider is ready for anything the toughest league in America throws his way.

As much as this summer has been about improvement and preparing for the season ahead, it’s also provided an opportunity for the Navarre volleyball players to form a strong bond.

Senior Reese Carroll believes she and her teammates have done just that.

Follow the Twitter feed of Christian Caballero and it doesn’t take long to figure out the rising Navarre junior is leaving a lasting impression on college coaches left and right.

Georgia Southern, Wake Forest and East Carolina are among the stops Caballero has made this summer for camps.