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.

If a reminder was needed on how this season has gone for Navarre Xpress, look no further than the handful of athletes that qualified for nationals.

Kadesh Lott, Mason Baker, Caden Howard, Bryce Howard, Chance Howard, Payton Robinson, Bryce Wheeler and Diesel Hemingway, all made it.

A defining moment for Navarre Xpress unfolded on a sweltering Sunday in early June at Sherman Robinson Stadium in Pensacola.

The boys team representing the local track club won an AAU district championship. The girls placed second. Combined, the two teams scored the most points of any other team at the area meet.

Practice is underway on a humid summer night at the NYSA Soccer Complex, and talented teen soccer standouts are getting ready to keep their special club season with Navarre United rolling along.

They wrapped up April with an FYSA President’s Cup championship, punching a ticket to Texas for the regional stage of the tourney.

Abby Fogg talked to her team just before the start of the fourth quarter Friday night, her team’s once comfortable lead now trimmed to four.

Eighth-ranked Navarre was on the brink of being upset by rival Milton, and Fogg wanted to make sure the Raiders did what they needed to do to avoid it.

Just two weeks into the season, the Navarre Raider volleyball team has already matched its win total from a season ago.

The Raiders kept their momentum rolling over the weekend by winning the Labor Day Classic in Foley Alabama, and are on their way to what could very well be their best season in program history.

The sound of medals clanking dominates on a summer night inside Bennett C. Russell Stadium.

Worn around the necks of young athletes that have worked hard for success, those medals are visible reminders of the rapid rise Navarre Xpress has experienced on the AAU track scene.