Sports Archive

Baker School rising senior lineman Kurt Armstrong is so big he doesn’t need a guard dog.

At 6-foot-4, 343 pounds, Armstrong is a force to be dealt for the Gators on both sides of the football.

Rayne Mendez looks like a typical high school student.

The 17-year-old Mendez is a junior at Niceville High School. She runs cross country and track for the Eagles. She runs the 1600 meters, the 3200 meters and the 5 K for the track team.

Three days into Baker spring football practice, coach Barry Gardner was finally getting to see just what his team looks like.

Not that he was complaining, but nine players missed the first couple of days as part of the Baker baseball team.

The Crestview High School football team took a break from their normal spring practice routine on May 1 and May 2 to showcase their talents in a football combine.

The players ran shuttle drills, agility drills, sprints, had jumps measured and were checked for height and weight.

The end of the school year in Okaloosa County on May 25 can mean many things.

One of those is the Crestview Bulldog Baseball Camp is just around the corner. The camp is open to boys and girls ages 4-13.

Alex Carroll has finished her Crestview High School softball career having recently played her final game for the Lady Bulldogs.

Petite in stature, Carroll has been a force at catcher throughout her high school career.

It seemed fitting that the sun had set and the moon was rising in the early spring sky as the District 2-6A softball game between Crestview and Niceville came to an end Thursday evening.
The setting sun symbolized the end of the season for one team.

Anybody that has attended a Crestview High School baseball game in the last 20 years has probably seen Jim and Nancy Gillis.

Jim and Nancy are the parents of Bulldog coach Tim Gillis as well as three other sons that graduated from CHS.

Crestview Lady Bulldog star basketball player Elesi Simmons will be trading the sugar white sand of Okaloosa County with the snow of Colorado.

Simmons, who shared this year’s most valuable player of the year honors for the Lady Bulldogs with Katiya Casey, has committed to play for Northeastern Junior College in Sterling, Colo.

The Crestview High School football team got a jump on spring practice last week.

There’s nothing to worry about as everything head coach Thomas Grant and the Bulldogs are doing is perfectly legal under Florida High School Athletic Association rules.