Bella Kendall runs hard with weights attached to her. She then switches gears and flat-out sprints from one of the end of the room to the other or settles in and pushes a set of weights on a sled across the floor.

It’s the offseason for flag football, and Kendall, a rising senior quarterback for the Navarre Raiders, is hard at work in a Pensacola gym on a rainy Tuesday evening.

Hunter Pfiester heads into the summer feeling like there is still work to be done on the football field.

Last season left a sour taste in his mouth. A 47-20 playoff loss to Creekside at Bennett C. Russell Stadium was not how the Raiders, who went 8-3, had hoped 2023 would end.

Navarre head coach Jay Walls now has time to sit back and evaluate the way things went this spring for his Raider football team.

It all wrapped up two weeks ago with a spring game against rival Gulf Breeze, and while the final score of the varsity half didn’t favor the Raiders, Walls thought there was a lot of good from that game and the spring as a whole.

Rising senior Calyn Rounsaville is already committed to NCAA Division II Montevallo for softball.

How the Navarre standout was first noticed by the Falcons is kind of a funny story.

Navarre’s softball team put together one of its best seasons in 2023 and all signs point to that success continuing next year.

While the Raiders are losing a strong senior class that helped the team reach its first regional tournament since 2019, a number of key players will return for the 2024 campaign.