Treymar Jones reached the 1,000-point milestone at two different high schools, a statistic that highlights just how good of a player the Milton grad is on the court.
Jones will have a chance to be a big-time scorer in college as well after signing earlier this year with Angelina, a junior college in Texas.
Pulling sleds, agility drills, running sprints up and down the field. It’s a lot of work in the brutal heat and humidity on a July morning.
That work, however, and everything else the Pace Patriots are doing on the football field this summer, is about building and preparing for the season ahead.
Brendan Farish loves football. So much, in fact, that as a child, he would study rosters on the John Madden video game.
“I have a tremendous passion for the game,” Farish said. “It’s almost obsessive. I love everything about it. I can’t imagine not playing it.”
It’s not often a small school high school athlete makes the jump to a Division I program.
But Morgan Mathews did it, becoming the first from Central to reach that level as she competed in track at South Alabama.
Central’s football team is closing in on the start of its second season of varsity football.
Leading up to it, the Jaguars are working this summer on the field.
The University of West Florida women’s basketball team will play at Disney World in November.
The Argos have been selected for the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Showcase scheduled for Nov. 20-23.
Milton softball alum Lexi Hawthorne played in the Triple Crown International Challenge last month in Colorado and finished out the experience with a bronze medal.
It was her second time playing in the event as she also played for Team Canada the summer leading up to her sophomore year with the Panthers.
Ava Grace Wheaton made it to the NCAA track and field meet for the second year in a row.
Wheaton, a Pace grad, competed in the javelin for South Alabama in the NCAA First Round at Hodges Stadium in Jacksonville.
