Sports Archive

The University of West Florida football team will begin another season nationally ranked.

The Argos check in at No. 11 in the American Football Coaches Association NCAA Division II preseason poll.

The University of West Florida men’s soccer team heads into the new season as the favorite to win the Gulf South Conference championship.

The Argos went 12-3-4 last season and reached the NCAA tournament for the eighth time in program history.

Football is back in the Panhandle this week as area teams will play their respective Kickoff Classics.

Milton will travel to Washington for its preseason game while Pace plays host to Fort Walton Beach.
Jay travels to Walton for its tune-up ahead of the regular season.

The West Florida Baptist volleyball team won its first tournament of the season over the weekend.

The Conquerors traveled to Hampton, Georgia and won both games on their way to the championship.

Raymond Cottrell draws as much attention as any football player in the area.

He is bound for reigning national champion Georgia once his high school career at Milton is done and is one of those players who might just play on Sundays one day.

It seemed like any other summer morning for Milton defensive lineman Gavin Peaden. Get up, get ready and prepare to put in hard work on the football field.

July 11 turned out to be different. While in a car with his grandma on the way to the high school, they came across a home on fire.

Caitlyn Gavin developed a passion for softball at a young age and has since dreamed about one day playing at the college level.

That opportunity isn’t too far off now for the Jay softball senior second baseman as she announced her commitment to South Alabama last month.

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.