Sports Archive

It has been more than a decade since the Crestview High School athletic program moved into a spacious weight room in the field house. But the new strength home didn’t necessarily mean the school bought all new equipment. And with close to 20 teams, male and female, using the equipment year-round, there was bound to be some wear and tear associated with aging.

It’s not too early for girls to start planning to attend the Crestview High School Kids Volleyball Camp.

Camp sessions are July 10-13 and July 17-20. The time is 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. each day.

Crestview High School’s volleyball team is hard at work this month preparing for the upcoming volleyball season which is only two months away. The off season process this year is much easier than last when the school was replacing the gym floor forcing the team to become nomads when looking for practice space. Now all coach James Kerrell has to do his typical coaching duties without trying to schedule gym space.

June is a busy month for most high school teams no matter what the sport. Teams only have so many days of summer to work and get better before the start of the school year. Football teams usually spend the entire summer putting in the time before practices officially start on July 31.

It’s not too early for young ladies to start planning to attend the Crestview High School Kids Volleyball Camp. Camp sessions are July 10-13 and July 17-20. The time is 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. each day.

Two decades have passed since Jonathan Ramos last suited up for the Baker Gators. As a junior in the fall of 2001, he was a member of Jeff Webb’s last football team at Baker. The following fall, in 2002, as a senior, he was member of Bill Sharpe’s first football team. In the spring of 2003, he finished his Baker athletic career with the Gator track team.

Maya Espinosa has been running on the fast track of life since her middle school days. As a seventh and eighth grader at Baker School, Espinosa was somewhat of a distance-running prodigy for the Gator cross country and track teams.

Crestview High School head football coach Thomas Grant welcomed close to 150 players as the Bulldogs started summer drills in preparation for the 2023 season.

Crestview opens the regular season on a Thursday night, hosting Rickards August 24.

Summer workouts for the Crestview football team started Monday and will continue through the end of July with a week off for the Independence Day Holiday the first week of July.

Bulldog head coach Thomas Grant was ready to get back on the field after taking two weeks off to wrap up the end of the school year and give players a chance to catch their breath before the start of summer drills.

Jonathan Ramos knows what it takes to get the most out of an athlete.

A 2003 graduate of Baker School, Ramos played football and ran track for the Gators.