A young and inexperienced Navarre Raider girls basketball team got its first look at live action on the court Tuesday during a preseason tournament in Pace.


The Raiders played four two-quarter games, including one against West Florida Tech, and head coach Abby Fogg talked about her team’s effort after that one.

Everette Alford took over as the head coach at Lighthouse Private Christian Academy in the summer of 2022, giving him little time to truly get things set up the way he wanted going into the season.


The team finished 1-8 that year, but over the last two seasons, with Alford’s fingerprints visible on the program, Lighthouse has thrived.

As a ninth grader, Katelyn Weller looked up to Kyra McKelvey, a former Navarre Raider volleyball standout now playing collegiately at Southeastern Louisiana.


This past volleyball season, Weller put herself in the same sentence as McKelvey, breaking her single season kills record.

It hasn’t taken much to motivate Navarre’s cross-country teams this season. The Raiders always show up ready to work.

It wasn’t the season Navarre’s football team planned on. Only three wins and the first losing campaign since 2009 was anything but ideal.


And yet, the senior class did its best to lead the way.