Vinny Villanova said he got in maybe one play on varsity last season. So, the bright lights of Friday night will be a new experience for him as he heads into his junior season with the Navarre Raiders.
He feels good about where he’s at with kickoff fast approaching and is happy with the work he’s put in this summer.
Living in faith as a Christian can be difficult unless you have a firm foundation in Christ upon which to stand. At the Rock United Pentecostal Church, pastor Jonathan Arneault and others are trying to provide that solid place to stand for everyone who walks through their doors.
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.
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.
The Emerald Coast is no stranger to sea turtles in need of help. Sea turtles get caught at fishing piers, are injured by boats and find themselves entrapped by plastic and other items that find their way into the ocean.
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.
Cheetahs are famous for being the fastest land animal, and now you can “spot” not one, but two in Northwest Florida. In early July, the Gulf Breeze Zoo welcomed two cheetahs – Big Mike and Safi. The four-year old brothers came to the Gulf Breeze Zoo from their sister Zoo, the Virginia Safari Park.
In the nearly 40 years the Gulf Breeze Zoo has been open, this is the first time they have had a cheetah exhibit, which can be seen daily next to the lions.
“It’s definitely a new adventure and I’m excited to be able to work with them and get to know them and build that relationship with them,” said McKenna Kuntzi, one of the cheetah keepers at the Gulf Breeze Zoo. “That’s pretty much the best part of our jobs is building relationships with the animals.”
