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.”
We have officially reached the point of the year where we are stuck between the continuation of summer and the start of high school sports season.
But it’s not as if the local sports world has completely hit a wall.
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.
I realize we are at the point where, if there was an eighth day added to the week, college football would be played on it.
I just don’t understand why NCAA Division II has to jump on the ship. Is it too much to ask for D-II to avoid playing college football games on Friday nights?
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.
