Jake Eder could have unraveled as he walked his third straight batter to load up the bases on an early July evening at Blue Wahoos Stadium, putting himself in a position no pitcher wants to face.
This was only his third Double-A start of 2023, and an important one with it being his first at home since the elbow injury two years ago that derailed his career at the time.
Jack Helton played through the pain last fall. It wasn’t easy. A bone calcification had broken off and was embedded in his patellar tendon in his right knee.
“It happened the summer going into my sophomore season. When I walked, it scraped against it,” Helton said.
Taylor Jefferson is talking about her upcoming senior season in basketball when her coach, Abby Fogg, shouts from down the hallway that Jefferson is one to watch this year.
Known as a standout softball player at Navarre, Jefferson is in a spot now where she will be counted on to step up big for the Raiders on the court as well.
Gary Graham is the new head coach of the Pensacola Ice Flyers.
He’s no stranger to the city or the team, having coached them to their first SPHL championship in franchise history in 2013. He replaces Rod Aldoff.
Young softball players spend a hot summer morning working on their swing, their pitching technique and their ability to play defense in the field, among other skills.
The thing about it all is that the Raiders softball players headed up the instruction. And that was by design, according to coach Chelsi Kania.
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.
