By ADAM PRUIETT adamp@nwfdailynews.com NICEVILLE - Last year during the recruiting process, Northwest Florida State College men's basketball coach Bruce Stewart focused on specific positions he wanted to upgrade. After all, with the return...
By ADAM PRUIETT adamp@nwfdailynews.com Austin Wood faced a difficult decision, and yet he couldn't go wrong either way. In the end, when Wood had to choose between playing college baseball at Florida State University or signing a pro contract...
By ADAM PRUIETT adamp@nwfdailynews.com Two days after arriving in England in February, Brianna Oeser found herself in familiar territory - a soccer field - on foreign territory, but the sense of normalcy didn't last long. While playing her...
Staff Report Next week the Daily News sports staff will begin work on its 2008 football tab. It is our goal to recognize all former local players now on a college roster. If your son will be playing college football this fall, we need his name, the...
By ADAM PRUIETT adamp@nwfdailynews.com The early recognition that the Clemson football team has received isn't a surprise to Matt Sanders, it's validation. "I knew Clemson was going to be good, that's why I picked it," said Sanders, a former...
By TRAVIS DOWNEY travisd@nwfdailynews.com I pulled into the Fort Walton Yacht Club just before 4:30 Wednesday for the club's weekly "fun race" armed with a knowledge of sailing that could - at best - be termed as "marginal." I had seen movies about...
By ADAM PRUIETT adamp@nwfdailynews.com Finding out your shoulder is a wreck would be devastating news to most football players. For Chris Martin, it was a relief. The former Choctawhatchee standout and University of Central Florida signee injured his...
By TRAVIS DOWNEY travisd@nwfdailynews.com Erin Walker was used to having to wait her turn, but this was different. As the Paxton discus standout awaited her turn to throw in last week's AAU national championships on the campus of Eastern Michigan University,...
By ADAM PRUIETT adamp@nwfdailynews.com NICEVILLE - When Bart Walker arrived at Northwest Florida State College, he didn't shy away from announcing ambitious goals, stating that he wanted to build the women's basketball team into one of the nation's...
By ADAM PRUIETT adamp@nwfdailynews.com When the time arrived this year for Craig Marshall to choose his next football destination, the former Choctawhatchee standout didn't have to rack his brain making a decision. University of South Florida football...