Autumn Boutwell received some good basketball advice in middle school that has served her well into her high school career.
It’s clear she’s taken that advice to heart as she’s cemented herself as one of the top 3-point shooters in the area and is currently the school record holder at Central for 3-pointers made in a season (71) and career (123).
David Aboya started playing basketball in the eighth grade. He loved the sport from the jump. When he got to high school, his friends convinced him to give football a shot as well. Never mind that he had never played the game.
Alyssa Clark wasn’t about to let a Crestview player get an easy two points off an uncontested layup in a game earlier this summer.
A track athlete as well as a basketball player, the junior for Pace kicked her speed into another gear and took off after her before blocking the shot.
Mark Yepshin has two young children. One just turned 3. The other is a little over a year. So when his name was mentioned as a possible head coach for the first women’s soccer program in Pensacola State history, he had to make sure his wife was on board.
Kalia Corbridge almost didn’t compete at USA Weightlifting nationals this year.
A reigning champ, the Pace grad said she started losing her drive in the sport shortly after the high school season ended with Corbridge repeating as an individual state champ and helping the Patriots claim their first team crown in program history.
Pensacola State’s women’s soccer team will play its first regular-season game in program history Aug. 18 at home against Hinds Community College. The Pirates will play their 2023 home games at the Ashton Brosnaham Complex in Pensacola.
Sydney Roest is on a new team. The Pace grad is playing college soccer for the first time. Typically, that can be a little intimidating.
But as she gets set for her first year with the first Pensacola State women’s soccer team in program history, she loves that a couple of her travel soccer teammates (Maddie Motes and Paige Phillips) are on the squad with her.
Nearly 20 Pace flag football players are at Benny Russell Park on a week night in mid-July, the heat and humidity downright brutal, but it hasn’t deterred the Patriots from getting some extra work in.
Turnout varies week to week, but overall, it’s been fairly steady.
In a way, Devin Tigano is carrying on a family legacy. His grandfather, Frank Tigano, a Vietnam veteran, was a champion in MMA and is in a hall of fame here in Northwest Florida as well as in his home state of Pittsburgh.
More than 40 years later, Devin is now in the ring. He made his debut in kickboxing in February at Island Fights in Pensacola.
