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Bri Edwards soaked it all in on Sunday as she competed in a national championship meet at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach.

She didn’t get this chance a year ago because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and because of that, competing this year meant a little more to the level 10 gymnast out of Navarre.

Emily Madril and the Florida State Seminoles are on the brink of another national championship.

The former Navarre Raider helped FSU advance to the College Cup final with a penalty kick shootout victory over Virginia Thursday.

Skylar Mayo was told by Lighthouse Private Christian Academy Athletic Director Robert Schneider that if there was an ever an opening for a coach within the athletic program Schneider headed up, he would hire him.

That was back in 2013 when Mayo was playing football at Southeastern University and Schneider was an assistant coach at the time at the school.

J.J. Bleday put his bat on the ball in the bottom of the fourth inning Wednesday night and sent it soaring over the wall in right field, helping the Pensacola Blue Wahoos erase a scoreless tie.

It was the first home run of his professional career and provided a shot in the arm for the Double-A affiliate of the Miami Marlins in their 4-1 victory over the Birmingham Barons at Blue Wahoos Stadium.

A year ago, there was no spring football for the Navarre Raiders. The COVID-19 pandemic axed those plans.

But Monday afternoon Navarre was back on the field ready to roll.

Navarre athletic director Scott Murphy has told me the story before about the time the Raiders were at the state softball tournament and someone mispronounced Navarre while also wondering where the heck the town was in Florida.

That was more than a decade ago.

Navarre’s Bri Edwards is headed to nationals in gymnastics after a successful run at the state and regional level.

Edwards is one of seven athletes representing Region 8 at the national meet, which takes place May 16 at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach.

Thomas Leggett will have to prove the doubters wrong one more time.

Hoping to be taken in the NFL Draft two weeks ago, the seven rounds came and went without Leggett hearing his name called.

Expectations were high for Navarre’s Rachel Leggett, Talin Griffin and Tyson Morgan at the 4A state track meet Saturday in Jacksonville.

And while the dream of a title didn’t become a reality for them at the University of North Florida’s Hodges Stadium, not all was lost.

A little more than a month ago, Rachel Leggett was still trying to get to the 5-foot-6 mark in the high jump while Talin Griffin and Tyson Morgan were battling injuries that kept them from competing in the pole vault.

Today at the University of North Florida’s Hodges Stadium in Jacksonville, all three Navarre athletes are heading into the 4A state track meet with high expectations and the belief they can contend for a title.