Football fever has reached its peak. The stadium is buzzing with excitement. The band is playing. The fans are cheering. The players are amped up for another gridiron battle, the sound of pads popping providing the soundtrack to the evening.
Kallie Anderson and Morgan Marquis laugh when they are asked about the competitiveness between them during an interview on a sweltering August morning.
Saturn Wagner is on the football field running a route during a practice on a hot and humid July morning. The hard-working rising senior makes the catches look easy, as if he’s been playing the position his entire career.
Josh VanMeter once lit up a scoreboard for 27 points in a regional final during his high school hoops glory days in Indiana. He connected on nine of his 11 attempts from the field in an upset victory over a school that dropped from 4A to 3A and went into the game as a heavy favorite.
Six weeks of summer workouts are in the books for Navarre’s softball team, and head coach Kelly Hayes is thrilled with the progress her players made on the field and in the weight room.
