Sports Archive

Kaila Corbridge’s road to glory at the 2022 USA Weightlifting National Meet in Las Vegas hasn’t exactly been paved in gold.

Take a few moments to listen and the senior Pace weightlifter will tell you all about the first time she competed in that meet five years earlier. She made only two lifts. A meltdown followed.

Milton grad Kelsey Hodges is one of eight University of West Florida softball players to earn Scholar-Athlete recognition from the National Fastpitch Coaches Association.

Hodges sports a 3.68 GPA and is majoring in athletic training. She started 17 games last season for the Argos.

Former University of West Florida wide receiver Quentin Randolph has been rewarded for his success in his first season in the Indoor Football League.

Randolph has been named to the league’s all-rookie team after an impressive 2022 season with the Western Conference champion Northern Arizona Wranglers.

J.C. Peacher made his first career start in a college baseball game on April 30. Georgia Southern was up against Coastal Carolina, and for Peacher, this was one of those moments that made the Pace alum reflect on the journey to get here.

The hours. The effort. The work. It was all worth it. There were nerves, sure, but those didn’t last long.

The University of West Florida football team is picked to finish second in the Gulf South Conference preseason poll.

The Argos were crowned conference champions for the first time in program history a year ago, sharing the title with Valdosta State, the favorite to win the GSC title.

It’s back to school for Brandon Sproat.

Drafted by the New York Mets in the third round of the Major League Baseball Draft last month, the Pace alum has opted to pass on pro baseball for now and return to the Florida Gators for another season.

The Pensacola Blue Wahoos have added one of the Miami Marlins’ top prospects to its roster.

Nasim Nunez, promoted to Double-A Pensacola is No. 17 in the Marlins system and was a second-round pick in 2019.

At one point in her career, Hallie Ueberroth quit playing softball.

It wasn’t long, though, before the Milton standout realized just how much she loved the game.

Nathan Wright has been playing football for more than a decade. It’s a sport that just seemed like the right fit for the rising Milton senior.

“I was always a bigger kid growing up, so football just suited me, but as I’ve grown up, I’ve come to realize how great the sport of football is,” Wright said. “I believe football is the greatest team sport of all time and it has definitely taught me many life lessons through my days of playing it.”

Single-game tickets for the University of West Florida football team go on sale to the general public at Noon Monday.

Tickets can be purchased through the UWF Athletic Ticket Office. A limited number of season tickets are on sale as well. All home games will be played at Pen Air Field, which is on the UWF campus.