A familiar face is back as the head coach of the Navarre Raider girls lacrosse team as Teddi Koppelberger has returned to coach it.

Koppelberger was the head coach of the program in its inaugural season in 2020, which was cut short by the pandemic, before moving out of the area after the 2021 season.

Hope was fading for Navarre’s softball team, the Raiders down to six outs to make something happen against Choctaw in its season opener Tuesday night.

It was in the bottom of the sixth inning when Navarre came to life offensively, scoring four runs.

Alyssa Grant didn’t spend her Super Bowl Sunday at a party. She was actually at the Super Bowl in Las Vegas earlier this month.

A Navarre grad and recreation management major at Florida State, Grant was able to see what life was like working a major sporting event.

Navarre’s girls weightlifting team stuck around for the team championship trophy presentation Friday night, watching rival Pace claim both the 3A Olympic and traditional titles at the RP Funding Center in Lakeland.

While this marked the second consecutive year that the Raiders fell short of adding an eighth state championship in program history, the end of the season was still something worth noting.

Navarre head coach Kirk Whited talked last week a few hours before a preseason game against rival Gulf Breeze about seeing what his Raider baseball team can do when it’s on the field and the lights are on.

Turns out, a good first impression was made as the Raiders rolled past Gulf Breeze 17-8 after falling behind 5-0 early.

Heartbreak enveloped Navarre’s girls soccer team late Tuesday night. Its dream of moving on in the Region 1-1A tournament dashed after a chaotic ending to a 2-1 double overtime loss to Nease on a chilly February evening at Bennett C. Russell Stadium.

Navarre’s boys basketball team came to an end last Tuesday night. The Raiders were overwhelmed early by Crestview and never got on track in an 84-57 District 1-6A quarterfinal loss to the Bulldogs.

Down 18-3 after one quarter and 45-15 at the half, it proved to be too big of a hole for the Raiders to dig out of as their up and down kind of season wrapped up.