Lighthouse Private Christian Academy is in a tough spot at the moment after Malcom Yonge Gym was closed by the city of Pensacola last Tuesday out of concerns surrounding potential unsafe building conditions.
Lighthouse, which uses the gym for its athletic events as well as physical education classes, didn’t learn it the city was closing it until shortly before action was taken at 5 p.m. that day.
Quentin Randolph shined brighter than the Las Vegas Strip Saturday night, turning in a memorable performance in his debut for the Vegas Knight Hawks.
The Navarre and UWF alum scored three touchdowns for the Knight Hawks as his second year in the IFL got off to an impressive start.
Back from spring break, Navarre’s flag football team didn’t miss a beat, rolling over rival Gulf Breeze for its latest victory.
The Raiders dominated the Dolphins 22-12 on the road behind three touchdown passes from Bella Kendall and a relentless defensive effort spear-headed by Courtney Danforth and Natalie Busch.
Tennis wasn’t something Jenna Cavanaugh played prior to going into high school.
Oh, there were the couple of random times she played it for fun as a fourth grader at a local rec center, but her focus had always been directed at the pool.
Navarre’s flag football team has shown a lot of promise in the early part of the season. The Raiders went into spring break sitting at 2-2 on the year and believing the best is yet to come.
“We have a lot of potential,” junior Jayah Jones said.
In an empty Bennett C. Russell Stadium last fall, Ameer Rustom is throwing the javelin, putting in the work to prepare for a track season that, at the time, was still a few months away.
Earlier that year, Rustom was at a low point in his athletic career, a torn ACL sidelined him for his senior season of football at Navarre and left his future in track and weightlifting hanging in the balance.
Ryan Ragan has shown early on in this baseball season that he can be clutch in a big moment.
In the seventh inning of a tightly contested game against Washington last month, Navarre trailing by a run, the junior came through with a two-run hit with two outs in the seventh inning to help propel the Raiders to a 7-5 victory.
Tyler Lewis gets up each day before the sun rises to make the trip over from Navarre to the University of West Florida Aquatic Center in Pensacola.
The high school season is still several months away, but for Lewis, a sophomore on the Raider swim team, the work never stops as he’s currently swimming for the Great Pensacola Aquatic Club.
Let’s talk about odds for a moment. Navarre’s softball team had a few stacked against them in Tuesday night’s battle with rival Niceville.
For starters, the Raiders came into the night on a four-game losing streak. And they trailed 5-0 after two innings against the Eagles, the same Eagles who have long been a thorn in their side, including at the end of last year when they bounced Navarre from the district tournament.
Kaleb Nobles talks with his team after the end of a University of West Florida spring practice on a sun-splashed morning in early March.
The first-year head coach of the program tells his players he is proud of the work they have put in and likes the way they have handled everything this spring.
