Navarre Girls Weightlifting – A dynasty in the making…

The Lady Raiders and Head Coach Garrett Bagley won their sixth State title today. The event took place at St Cloud High School.

Jelina Bly and Jada Thomas brought home individual titles in their respective class.  Navarre now has 16 individual titles in the history of their program.

Class 3A State Weightlifting results:

Navarre – 30 points
Vero Beach – 26 points
North Port – 20 points
Bartram Trail – 16 points
Dr Phillips – 13 points
Niceville – 11 points
Hagerty – 9 points
Flagler – 9 points
Buchholz – 8 points
Palm Beach Gardens – 7 points
Oakleaf – 7 points

Navarre
101 – Jelina Bly – 320lbs – 1st Place
101 – Kari Brewton – 265lbs – 3rd Place
119 – Bella Martin – 295lbs – 6th Place
129 – Chloe Roubique – 285lbs – 10th Place
139 – Ariel Michel – 350lbs – 2nd Place
139 – Sarah Schumpert – 300lbs – 9th Place
154 – Jada Thomas – 390lbs – 1st Place
169 – Jacey Harper – 320lbs – 10th Place
183 – Kathryn Hilt – 315lbs – 7th Place
183 – Mackenzie Prather – 310lbs – 8th Place
199 – Abby Routh – 315lbs – 6th Place
Unl – Emillia Collins – 410lbs – 2nd Place

Spruce Creek holds the all-time record with nine State titles.

Of late, when it comes to Girls Weightlifting, Navarre has become the standard for which all other high schools in the State of Florida aspire to be. The Lady Raiders currently have won 16 straight District and 14 straight Regional titles.

Coach Aaron Daniel put the program on the map with four straight State runner-up finishes starting in 2008.

Coach Garrett Bagley took over the program in 2013 and has brought home six titles. The first in 2013; then followed that up with four straight titles from 2015 to 2018. He added two State runner-ups in 2014 and 2020.

Navarre has produced 16 individual State Champions (to include Bly and Thomas).

Tanisha Thomas was their first in 2010 (119).  They produced two in 2011; Jameeka Anderson (119) and Kayla Poole (unlimited). 

Amanda Friar (110) added one in 2013; followed by two from Kylie Shelley (119) in 2014 and 2015.  Taelor Smith (199) and Nicole Thornton (154) jumped on the bandwagon as well in 2015.

Payton Watson (101) and Savannah Diel (119) went back to back in 2016 and 2017.  Olivia Brahms (169) gave the Raiders their third State Champion in 2016 alone. 

Coming into 2021, the last to take home an individual State title was Amaya Craig in 2018. 

Navarre has now claimed State titles in three different classifications (Class 1A, Class 2A and now in Class 3A) .

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