For someone like Shaun Parcher, an athlete who has always been in that close but not quite category when it comes to track, getting to the regional is a big deal.
Austin Tebo couldn’t have asked for a better way for senior night to play out. He and fellow Navarre seniors Cade Taylor and Ryan Cocker went out winners in the final regular-season district game of their careers, the Raiders knocking off Crestview 5-1 Friday night.
Until his sophomore year, Nick Lightner didn’t play much tennis. Carson Whitley, on the other hand, has been playing the sport since he was a young child. His dad, Rob, after all, is the head coach.
Athletes move around on wheelchairs up and down the basketball court on a Friday afternoon inside a gymnasium at Eglin Air Force Base. It’s a competitive game and there is fun involved as well.