Bella Kendall runs hard with weights attached to her. She then switches gears and flat-out sprints from one of the end of the room to the other or settles in and pushes a set of weights on a sled across the floor.
It’s the offseason for flag football, and Kendall, a rising senior quarterback for the Navarre Raiders, is hard at work in a Pensacola gym on a rainy Tuesday evening.
Hunter Pfiester heads into the summer feeling like there is still work to be done on the football field.
Last season left a sour taste in his mouth. A 47-20 playoff loss to Creekside at Bennett C. Russell Stadium was not how the Raiders, who went 8-3, had hoped 2023 would end.
Abby Fogg holds the mic and is giving instructions to the young athletes who have turned out for the latest edition of the Navarre Raider basketball camp.
She’s engaged with the athletes, keeping them active for the full three hours each day of this camp in early June.
Ricky Henderson becomes the fastest to 50 stolen bases in a Major League Baseball season on June 1, 1982. He hit the mark by stealing two bases in Oakland’s 3-2 win over Boston.
The Pensacola Blue Wahoos edged Biloxi 3-2 Wednesday in Mississippi.
Down 4-3 in the eighth, Will Banfield put the Blue Wahoos back in business with a game-tying home run. Norel Gonzalez then hit a homer to put Pensacola ahead for good.
Michael Sandle is still playing High-A baseball for the Asheville Tourists while Matt Cronin remains on the injured list for the Triple A Rochester Red Wings.
They are graduates of Navarre and the first two former Raiders to play professional baseball.
Navarre head coach Jay Walls now has time to sit back and evaluate the way things went this spring for his Raider football team.
It all wrapped up two weeks ago with a spring game against rival Gulf Breeze, and while the final score of the varsity half didn’t favor the Raiders, Walls thought there was a lot of good from that game and the spring as a whole.
Rising senior Calyn Rounsaville is already committed to NCAA Division II Montevallo for softball.
How the Navarre standout was first noticed by the Falcons is kind of a funny story.
Dante Wright has a new home as a college football player.
But forget that he will play out East this fall at Temple instead of out West where he’s been the last few years as a wide receiver for Colorado State.
Kamal Rustom was planning on just going to school. He had no intentions of lifting weights competitively after high school.
And then a successful performance at the Navarre Invitational his senior year changed his course. Someone from Mars Hill connected with Raider head football coach Jay Walls and that set things in motion.
