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Every so often Navarre head girls basketball coach Abby Fogg will remind her team of the gut-wrenching ending to last season.

That district tourney semifinal against Pace she references went to three overtimes, and ultimately it was a 17-of-29 showing from the free-throw line that doomed the Raiders’ upset bid in an 81-74 loss.

Luke Losquadro played football until his freshman year of high school at Navarre.

A tough day at practice changed everything.

Maybe I missed the memo. Maybe I was left off the press release list that was sent out by the Florida High School Athletic Association.

Or maybe I just need to clean out my email because an important one from the FHSAA is buried under the rubble of other emails that include requests for your checking account number so that you can have $100,000 deposited into your bank today.

Michael Carter takes the handoff and starts heading up the field, thinking for a moment about running inside before cutting to the outside and running untouched into the end zone.

Tori Martino entered her senior season of college soccer at Indiana University-East unsure of what was ahead.

Twice in the preseason the team was forced into a mandatory two-week quarantine. A player tested positive for COVID-19 before practice began and another player tested positive in the middle of preseason play.

Rain begins to let up as Navarre’s girls soccer team gets going with another practice at the NYSA Soccer Complex.

But a little precipitation on an afternoon in late October isn’t going to keep the Raiders from putting in the necessary work to prepare for a season that is filled with both high hopes and, of course, uncertainty because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Garrett Bagley is quick to push away any comparisons of his 2019 state runner-up girls weightlifting team at Navarre to the one that will compete for the Raiders this season.

“That group last year did an amazing job and was one of the best ever from top to bottom,” Bagley said. “This year, we have a new crew, and to be honest, they have a lot to prove right now.”

Just when it seems like Luke Losquadro can’t one-up himself, he finds a way to do so.

Navarre’s senior swimming standout set school records in the 50 and 100 freestyle events Saturday in the 1-4A regional meet in Lake Brantley.
Those performances catapulted Losquadro into this week’s state meet in Stuart.

Jebari Mitchell has developed a knack for setting the tone with an explosive kick return.

He was at it again Friday night with Navarre trailing by a touchdown four minutes into its homecoming showdown with Enterprise.