Rain fell for a period of about 20 minutes on a Thursday afternoon in mid-July, but soon gave way to sunshine and humidity thick enough to cut with a knife.
Yet, the weather conditions didn’t put a damper on the experience Navarre’s football team got out of a unique 7-on-7 battle with Choctaw.
Hailey Netro had just come off the course at Scenic Hills on a hot July afternoon in Pensacola and talked about the challenges of playing here.
It’s certainly not the easiest course she has played on over the summer.
Size. Strength. Experience.
Navarre’s offensive line seems to have it all, and the players who are on it feel good about the progress being made this summer to ensure the advantages the line has work once the season starts in August.
Day one of Bri Edwards’ sophomore gymnastics season at Florida could not have gone much better. She got things rolling with a collegiate career-best vault mark of 9.85.
It was the start of another successful year for the former Navarre Raider who said she grew as a college student and adult while feeling more comfortable in her environment as a Division I athlete.
Wayne Albury is entering a build-it-from-ground-up type of situation as the new athletic director and baseball coach at Lighthouse Christian College.
He’ll officially take on both roles in August, and for Albury, being part of a new program isn’t new.
Andre Spence is one of those players who can make an impact no matter what side of the ball he is on.
Primarily a standout defensive player for the Navarre Raiders, Spence is capable of being a bruising-style running back as well, and he had opportunities to do that in the spring.
Former NFL star Derrick Brooks is hosting a golf tournament at the Pensacola Country Club Aug. 14.
The 11-time Pro Bowler who helped the Tampa Bay Bucs win a Super Bowl in 2003 is hosting the tournament in an effort to raise money for Derrick Brooks Charities of Northwest Florida.
Colby Jones considers herself fortunate that she is playing lacrosse at the collegiate level.
She didn’t get into the sport seriously until midway through her high school career at Navarre, and that first season was erased because of the pandemic.
In some ways here on a morning in late June inside the gymnasium, Raider head coach Abby Fogg said she feels as if she’s traveled back in time.
“I told coaches it feels like my first couple of years at Navarre. I’m teaching a lot instead of just watching us play,” Fogg said.
That familiar sound of the bat meeting the ball rang out on a June morning where the heat made it feel as if standing outside was the inside of the oven.
One month of summer workouts are nearly in the books and the Navarre baseball team feels good about the progress made, both in the cages and in the weight room.
