It comes as no surprise that Emily Madril is the 4A State Player of the Year for the second consecutive season. The Navarre junior has established herself as one of the best in Florida and the recognition is something she feels honored to receive.
The toughest thing for Navarre head basketball coach Taf Bentley to deal with Thursday night in Tallahassee wasn’t that his Raiders were eliminated from postseason play by Lincoln, it’s that the 2015-16 season is over.
Navarre’s 2016 baseball season began in earnest Feb. 9, and the team went 2-1 in week one. The Raiders recorded blow out wins over Gulf Breeze and Washington and lost a close one to Pace at the end of the week.
One of the walls inside Garrett Bagley’s Navarre High School office is covered with newspaper clippings highlighting the accomplishments of his girls weightlifting team during the last four years.
As Pete Shinnick stood in front of a podium on national signing day Wednesday, his University of West Florida football team exactly seven months from the start of its historic first season, the head coach of the Argos talked about the differences in recruiting this year compared to a year ago when the program was just starting up.
The defending champion Raiders wanted nothing less than another team victory as they traveled to Kissimmee on Feb. 6 to compete in the state Girls’ Weightlifting tournament. If they could pull off a win, it would be their third state championship in the last four years. During the years they did not win the team trophy, they placed second.
As the final seconds ticked off the clock Thursday night and the reality of the curtain lowering on a tremendous season began to sink in, Navarre’s girls basketball team never stopped playing hard.
