Sports Archive

Year in and year out the Davidson Middle School football team is one of the best in Okaloosa County. Often the biggest obstacle standing in the way of the Panthers and a county championship is Crestview rival Shoal River.

LoveHandlez basketball is quickly becoming a go-to organization for helping young basketball players develop their skills.

Based out of Dothan, Ala., it’s run by Ashley Beverly Kelley, a former player at Troy University who currently plays professionally in Europe.

The Crestview High School volleyball team hosted a youth camp for young ladies in grades three-eight last week and again this week.

The first week of the camp was an unmitigated success and Lady Bulldog coach James Kerrell was pleased with the turnout.

John Gillis still has big baseball dreams that include one day playing pro baseball.

Gillis played baseball and football at Crestview. The latter part of his senior football season, he was the starting quarterback for the Bulldogs. But baseball always has been his first love, which is to be expected as his father, Tim, is a former minor league player and the Crestview baseball coach.

The summer workouts have come to an end for Laurel Hill School’s girls basketball team.

The arrival of July means it’s time for most of the basketball players to turn their attention to volleyball season, which starts next month.

Life in the fast lane never ends for Baker coach Chelsea Medley, at least not before softball season.

In addition to being a wife and mother of two small children, Medley coaches volleyball and girls basketball.

Jay Stanton’s football journey seems to be winding to an end.
A member of the Crestview High School Class of 2019, Stanton has been a member of the Samford University football team since that fall.

Crestview’s football team took to the field at Jack Foster Stadium on a warm June 28 evening for a seven-on-seven game with Destin.

No score was kept in an event that marked the halfway point in summer drills. Bulldog head coach Thomas Grant saw things to work on and other things the team can build on when returning to the field July 10.

The City of Crestview resumed its popular sports camps this summer after a few years absence due to the pandemic.
At the top of the camp wish list was the fishing camp, taught by Crestview High School outdoor education teacher Ernie Martin.

Pearson McDaniel only spent a year at Crestview High School but it was good year.
A 2023 Crestview graduate, McDaniel enrolled at CHS last summer after spending his first three years of high school at Fort Walton Beach.