Navarre’s boys soccer team is all in with an intense game of futsal inside the Gulf Pointe Latin gymnasium on a Tuesday in late July.
Back and forth. Hard shots on goal. Big saves. This is the kind of thing head coach James Baccarini wanted to see from his team during its month of summer workouts.
Working as a group to move across a football practice field while standing on planks. Knot tying. Sit-ups in unison.
Those were among the activities first-year Navarre NJROTC cadets took part in a camp designed to introduce newcomers to the program.
Medals clanking has become a familiar sound for the Navarre Xpress. The sound grew a little louder this year.
The local track club had its best AAU season yet in its short history, particularly at the regional meet in Jacksonville earlier this summer when 19 qualified and 17 punched a ticket to nationals.
Reigning Gulf South Conference co-champion University of West Florida football is picked to finish in the preseason conference football poll this year.
The Argos received two first-place votes and 56 points in all in the poll, second only to GSC favorite Delta State, which earned six first-place votes and tallied 61 points. West Georgia checks in at No. 3 and got one first-place vote.
Austin Reed was on fire. Not literally, of course, but in sports terms.
He threw one touchdown pass. And then another. And another. And one more for good measure. Four in all to go along with a New Orleans Bowl-record 497 passing yards as he guided Western Kentucky to a 44-23 win over South Alabama on mid-December night in the Caesars Superdome.
Michael Sandle continues to play well for the Asheville Tourists in his third season as a pro while Matt Cronin remains out of action for the Rochester Red Wings. Both are alums of Navarre.
Sandle is batting .218 through 55 games for the Tourists, the High-A affiliate of the Houston Astros. He has racked up 44 hits and driven in 19 runs while scoring 22 runs.
High school coaches don’t have it easy. Most of them try to do the best job that they can, but often, they are in a no-win situation.
I’m not saying coaches are perfect. They get things wrong. We all do. It’s called being human.
Football is the focus of the day. Navarre is getting set to take on Choctaw in a 7-on-7 game at Hurlburt Field.
Before things get rolling here on a hot and humid July morning in Northwest Florida, Col Allison Black steps onto the logo at midfield, the players gathered around her, and talks a little bit about the opportunity the athletes have to play this game and a little about what special operations are all about here on the base.
Volleyball action is underway on the sand courts below the deck at Juana’s Pagodas on a Friday afternoon in late July, the Santa Rosa Sound serving as the backdrop to a major volleyball tournament on Navarre Beach.
An open AVP tournament put on through the efforts of Juana’s, Navarre Beach Tattoo Company and Saucedwear has come to fruition this weekend, and the prize money up for grabs is $17,000.
From the gym to the football field. A few moments in between to catch his breath. That’s the kind of schedule Darius Cunningham Jr. is rolling with this summer.
