Sports Archive

Jada Thomas said she didn’t want to push herself too much in the first girls weightlifting meet of the season last Wednesday afternoon.

But being the competitor that she is, the senior attempted a few bonus lifts to test her strength.

Chants of Let’s Go Raiders boomed from the visitor’s section of Jack Foster Stadium.

Along the sideline, Navarre’s football players showed an extra bounce in their step, raising their helmets in the air in the final minutes of a 30-13 road win over Crestview.

Navarre’s girls soccer team split its two preseason matches last week at the NYSA Soccer Complex.

The Raiders knocked off rival Gulf Breeze 5-3 last Wednesday but lost 4-3 to West Florida Saturday.

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.