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Fort Walton Beach's Mount Rushmore: Vote for who should join football, 1990s stars
Fort Walton Beach High School was the "it" athletic program of the 1990s in the area. The football team won state titles in 1991 and 1995 as the home to Heisman Trophy winner Danny Wuerffel. The girls basketball team won state titles in 1994 and 1999, and the boys basketball program made back-to-back Final 4s in 1996 and 1997, the latter finishing state runner-up. No school in the area could match that big-sport success, and more than...
Emerald Coast Blue Marlin Classic Defies Tropical Storm, Delivers Big Blue
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Navarre's Mount Rushmore: Football, weightlifting dominate. Now vote for the next best
One of the newest area schools has also become one of the biggest. With 2,436 students, according to the most recent school population report by FHSAA, no area school is bigger than Navarre High. But while it may be the youngest in Santa Rosa County, opened in 1996, it has quickly built a rich athletic history founded on weightlifting state titles, gridiron success and postseason soccer runs. ...
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