Dante Wright scored his first Canadian Football League touchdown on Friday.


The former Navarre Raider snagged a 42-yard touchdown pass for the Stampeders’ first score of the night against Edmonton.

Four Navarre Raider softball players earned a spot on the Pensacola Sports Association All-Star roster.

Three Navarre Raider baseball players were selected for the Pensacola Sports Associaiton All-Star Game, which was played May 21 at Pensacola State.

Anabel Hume was at the top of her class in eighth grade. She is pretty close to the top as she gets set to close out her academic career at Navarre High, earning salutatorian honors for the Class of 2026.

Morgan Pope noticed her sophomore year that she was in the top five of her graduating class and decided to push for a shot to get to the top.


“I saw I was second my sophomore year and decided to keep pushing to do my best and see what I could do,” Pope said.

Jade Wright remembers watching her older brother, Dante, compete at the FHSAA state track meet during his high school career at Navarre.


She never imagined she would one day get the chance to compete on that stage, but her sophomore year proved to be a memorable one.

As Navarre head football coach Garrett Bagley takes a moment to evaluate spring practice, he notes the progress that has been made and also points out there is still work to do.

Jay Walls is still learning as he goes in preparation for year one of football at Soundside.


He’s been a head coach before, including 12 seasons at Navarre, but this is his first time building a program from the ground up.

Navarre’s own Quentin Randolph is a champion again.


The former Raider helped the Vegas Knight Hawks win the inaugural Indoor Football League Cup on May 24 in New Jersey.

Many of the graduates in Santa Rosa and Okaloosa counties are high school athletes I have covered over the last four years.


Navarre, Pace, Milton, Central, Jay, Baker and Crestview have all been represented well by those athletes and now it’s time for them to bid farewell and move on to the next chapter of their lives.