Dana Tolleson battles in the paint during a JV basketball game against Navarre. She’s steadily improved throughout the year, working her way into Milton’s starting lineup.
Her athletic ability doesn’t end on the court, however, as the sophomore is also having another impressive season in the weight room.
Autumn Boutwell made it look easy. The same way she has the previous hundred-plus times she’s launched up a 3-point shot in a game.
In Central’s dominating 61-21 win over Northview on Jan. 19, the sophomore star took the assist from a teammate and knocked down an open shot from beyond the arc to break the record for 3-pointers in a season at the school.
The only thing left to be decided for Pace late Friday night here at Bennett C. Russell Stadium in Navarre was where the team was going to have its post-game meal.
In some ways, the real appetite had already been satisfied for the Patriots, who finally secured a long-awaited postseason win over the rival Raiders, holding off Navarre 1-0 in a hard-fought, back-and-forth, physical District 1-6A tournament semifinal on a chilly evening in late January.
A Friday night opener and a road game against a Division I Florida A&M are among the highlights of the 2023 University of West Florida football schedule.
Coming off the third NCAA Division II national semifinal appearance in program history in 2022, the Argos kick off the 2023 campaign on Sept. 1 against Kentucky Wesleyan at Pen Air Field.
Joe Surratt is on the ground floor at Central and he couldn’t be more excited.
Named the head coach of a start-up Jaguar football team that begins play in 2023, Surratt is looking forward to building the program up.
By the end of the first quarter last Thursday night Milton’s girls basketball team found itself staring up at a deficit.
The Panthers trailed 13-2 and saw the Navarre lead extend to 20-7 at halftime in this District 1-6A game.
With more than 100,000 followers, Lily Priddy has created quite a following for herself on Tik Tok. People now know who she is when she walks into a meet.
But social media isn’t the only way the Milton senior is making a name for herself. She’s also quite a success story in girls weightlifting and further cemented that reputation Wednesday afternoon in Niceville by winning a title in traditional at the District 1-3A meet.
Madison Misleh speaks for her teammates when she says the Pace girls weightlifting team has been on a mission since finishing as the runner-up to Navarre at the 3A state meet last year.
So there was an added sense of joy, accomplishment and downright pride in finally reaching the top of District 1-3A.
L.E.A.D. Academy head boys basketball coach Joey Nieves burns a timeout with 3:50 left in the third quarter of a game that has all but been decided.
In the huddle, he’s intense, acting as if his team is down 30 instead of up, challenging his team to stay sharp, avoid the bad shots and cut back on some of the unforced turnovers.
Pace finished as the state runner-up a year ago in 3A. Milton fashioned a top five finish at state in 2A but has now moved up a classification this year.
Both girls weightlifting teams hope to have successful runs in the postseason, which was slated to start Wednesday with the District 1-3A meet at Niceville.
