Santa Rosa County swim teams got some preseason work in on Tuesday in a preseason relay meet at the Pullum YMCA in Navarre.
Navarre, Pace and Milton all competed at the meet on a hot and humid afternoon. Gulf Breeze was there as well.
Panhandle Prospects is hosting its third Top 40 Showcase Aug. 27 at the Fricker Center in Pensacola.
The top 40 players from the area will be participating in front of college coaches and members of the media, including Milton’s Treymar Jones and Ra’shaun Elzy as well as Jay’s Mason Allen. CJ McKinley, who had been playing at Milton and will play this season at FCP National High School, will also participate.
It’s hot here on a practice field just outside of Pen Air Field on an early August afternoon. The kind of hot that requires multiple water breaks over the course of two hours and popsicles at the end of practice.
And yet, the University of West Florida football team pushes through the brutal summer heat and stifling humidity.
Joe Surratt helps a young football player adjust his helmet before practice begins for Central on an open athletic field in rural Santa Rosa County.
It’s one of those things that comes with the territory of being a program literally being built from the ground up.
Manny Kimmons started playing football in middle school and hasn’t looked back. He’s now one of the Milton Panthers’ top players going into the 2023 season.
A senior defensive lineman, Kimmons is doing his best to be a leader.
The University of West Florida men’s basketball team has added two coaches to its staff for the 2023-24 season.
Former Navarre hoops assistant and Raider alum Tyler Welch is joining the staff along with Justin Mann, a former head coach at Independence Community College in Kansas.
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).
