Runners Laura and Stephen Pifer met at the University of Colorado, where both competed for the Buffaloes. A few years later, the couple is married and raising sons Jameson, 5, and Vincent, 4, in Jacksonville, where Stephen is a technical representative and educator for Boulder, Colo.-based Newton Running. Laura is a stay-at-home mother and an Internet entrepreneur, marketing fashions made from repurposed materials from her web-based business, Trash to Couture (www.trashtocouture.com).
Jordan Leggett didn’t know much about Clemson University in South Carolina until the Tigers’ football program began recruiting the Navarre High School standout. But on April 13, he joined a select brotherhood.
Navarre High School distance jumpers Nick Benton and Elijah Appel are the only Raiders competing at the Class 3A state track and field meet Friday, May 3, at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville.
The University of West Florida Argonauts will play West Alabama at 9 a.m. today, May 2, in the first game of the 2013 Gulf South Conference Baseball Championship Tournament at AT&T Field in Chattanooga, Tenn.
The Pensacola Sports Association on Sunday announced that the Florida College System Activities Association will hold its Women’s Fast Pitch Softball Championship tournament in Pensacola May 3-5.
The biggest surprise that came out of the District 1-3A track meet two weeks ago may have been the emergence of Navarre High School triple-jump third-place finisher, Elijah Appel. The senior football star and sprinter came out of nowhere to become a medal winner and, last week, to become one of just two Raiders who qualified for the Class 3A state championship meet Friday, May 3, at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville.
The Navarre High School baseball team advanced to the second round of a district tournament for the first time in four years with a dramatic 13-inning win against Milton, but the Raiders’ struggles against Pace continued in the District 1-6A semifinals. The Patriots claimed a 5-3 victory April 24 at Tate High School in Cantonment despite managing just three hits against Navarre pitching.
Raiders T. J. Woodberry and Jay Warren brought home medals from the Florida High School Athletics Association weightlifting championship held Friday, April 19, in Kissimmee.
