Eagle Football Alumni

Niceville High School Football is proud of its former team members.  After graduating high school, we have had many students go on to play football in college, professional football, and for arena football.  We are proud to say that we also have our former team members go on to touch the lives of others by becoming football coaches at all different levels: middle and high school, college, arena, and professional football.

We would like to hear from you. Are you a Eagle Alumni? Tell us what you are doing these days!  We would love to have you be a part of our Eagle Football Alumni page.  Sign up . . .

Name:
Nick Parks
Class of:
 2004
Position
 TE, OL
Jersey #
82, 75
Most Memorable Moment:
Upsetting Rutherford my sophmore year
What are you doing now?

Working at the Department of Education in Tallahassee
Email:

Eagle82@hotmail.com
Name:
Justin M. Hawley
Class of:
 2006
Position
 RB, LB
Jersey #
11
Most Memorable Moment:
The State Semi Finals against Lakeland playing in front of 12,000 fans.
What are you doing now?

Starting my senior year at UCF.
Email:
jhawley203@hotmail.com
Name:
Patrick Diggett
Class of:
 1999
Position
 DE
Jersey #
34
Most Memorable Moment:
Being added to the hands team an hour before kickoff, during my last game ever, against a Tallahassee team in the playoffs. In the fourth quarter the other teamed lined up for for an onside kick and I ended up recovering the ball in the pile.
What are you doing now?

Project Manager and Software Engineer for a simulation company in Orlando. Father of three and proud Army veteran.
Comments

Play hard, never quit. You never know when your last play will be.

Email:
pdriggett@gmail.com
Name:
Chris Johnson
Class of:
 1999
Position
 WR, DB, RB, KR, PR
Jersey #
21
Most Memorable Moment:
District championship against Ft. Walton Beach, or maybe against Choctaw when scored winning TD on 24 blast. Remember it like yesterday.
What are you doing now?
I am a Pastor, a Firefighter, and a Coach in Murfreesboro, TN. Played college ball and received degree from Middle Tennessee State University.
Comments

To all players: Enjoy High School and Give Your All. You only get one shot at it.
One is too Small a number to Achieve Greatness. John C. Maxwell

Email:
pastorj@thisiszion.org
Name:
Mike LaFleur
Class of:
 1991
Position
 Center
Jersey #
70
Most Memorable Moment:
Being a sophmore on the championship team with Grant Meyer, Danny Lawrence, Danny Brechtal, Sean Henning R.I.P. I only played a little but I will never forget it. Thanks guys for all the memories.
What are you doing now?
Deputy Sheriff, Kansas City, Missouri
Comments
 To all the coaches, especially Sommers, who made a significant impact on how my life turned out. I wish everyone the best and I can still name everyone in the 1988 state champ pics. LOL
Email:
mplafleur2002@gmail.com
Name:
Bobby Davis
Class of:
 1989
Position
 DT
Jersey #
60
Most Memorable Moment:
During my 9th grade year all my stuff was thrown out of my locker because the coaches confused me with another person who was not showing up. I had to convince Coach Sorrels and he was very close to not letting me back on.
What are you doing now?
Working in IT Healthcare in Jacksonville, Florida
Comments
 Adron, I did not clip that guy. I promise you. He ran into me.
Email:
erratusanimus@gmail.com
Name:
Roger Kennedy
Class of:
 1973
Position
 Guard, Tackle, Kicker
Jersey #
72
Most Memorable Moment:
Beating FWB Vikings 8-7 in 1972.
What are you doing now?
Fighting forest fires for the Department of Defense.
Email:
kennedyr@eglin.af.mil
Name:
Tom Holloway
Class of:
 1980
Position
 Wide Receiver
Most Memorable Moment:
Beating the Andalusia Bulldogs
What are you doing now:
 Retired form the US Air Force in 2002.  Currently working civil service at Langley AFB, VA.
Comments:
 Niceville will always be home for me.....  Good luck in the 2007 - 2008 season.
Email:
buckholloway@cox.net
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Name:
Keith Kindred
Class of:
 1984
Position
 Defensive End
Jersey #
77
Most Memorable Moment:
My first game we beat Choctaw 14-7 for the first time. Also when I won Defensive Player of the Year in 1984.
What are you doing now?
Running a garden center for Wal-Mart.
Comments
 What's up all you old timers from the 80s.  I'm living in Fort Walton Beach.
Email:
kkbamafan@cox.net
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Name:
Jeff Rhodes
Class of:
 1985
Position
 Offensive Line
Most Memorable Moment:
Picking my clothes up in the middle of Turkey creek bridge. Trying not to get hit by passing cars.
What are you doing now:
 High School Principal in Opp, Al. Coached 14 years of High School Football.
Email:
jrhodes@oppboe.com
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Name:
Angel Acevedo
Class of:
 1988
Position
 Running Back/Outside linebacker
Jersey #
2
Most Memorable Moment:
Winning the 1988 State Championship and being able to share those great times with some really outstanding friends! God Bless "ACE."
What are you doing now?
Currently in the military stationed in Japan with 19 years in service. I am currently the Basketball coach for the Base Team. Can't wait to retire!
Comments
 To all my brothers from the Da'Ville, I hope we meet up down the road. Still chillin in Shalimar so drop on by the crib and say hi to my mother! # Springhill Road...Saint Paul, Saint Peter, Saint Peter, Saint Paul, Remember that?
Email: 
prp1017@hotmail.com
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Name:
Jesse Moore
Class of:
 1989
Position
 Wide Receiver, Defensive Back
Jersey #
22
Most Memorable Moment:
Winning the 1988 State Championship with my brothers!  Since the days of playing little football with Cornell Tinner and Adron Robinson on Eglin, through Lewis Junior High and finally winning it all!
Comments
 The main ingredient in stardom is the rest of the team!
Email:
jaymo98@tampabay.rr.com
Memory Lane Pictures
 Picture 1, Picture 2, Picture 3
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Name:
Taylor Morton
Class of:
 1989
Position
 TE/DE
Jersey #
82
Most Memorable Moment:
Coming back after knee surgery to play in the last few games of the season the championship year of 1988.
What are you doing now?
College scout for the Atlanta Falcons after coaching 8 years of college football.
Comments
 I would like to thank all of my coaches from NHS who inspired me to enter the coaching/football profession...We have a very close knit group of guys from the championship team, which I talk with at least one of them probably once a week.
Email:
tmorton@falcons.nfl.com
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Name:
Adron Robinson
Class of:
 1989
Position
 Fullback, Linebacker
Most Memorable Moment:
Of course, winning the 1988 State Football Championship 48-14 over Bradenton Southeast in front of 15,000 screaming fans with a group of guys that embodied the word TEAM.  There has never been a TEAM like that one in the history of Niceville! 
Email:
arock3@aol.com
Memory Lane Pictures
 Picture 1, Picture 2, Picture 3
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Name:
Ozie Wilhite
Class of:
 1990
Position
 Running Back
Jersey #
26
Most Memorable Moment:
I want to say scoring 5 touch downs in one game, even the great Kedra Malone didn't top that, although he could have easily.  But even more than that, winning the State Championship and experiencing being on a true team.
What are you doing now?
Medical Social Worker at Baylor College of Medicine
Comments
 You can't replace the memories and friendships that developed in 1988.  Remember the EAGLES!!!!!  P.S. Thanks for everything coaches.
Email:
wilhite@bcm.edu
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Name:
Dirk Strunk
Class of:
 1992
Position
 DB
Jersey #
11
Most Memorable Moment:
Beating Choctaw 28-22 in the fog bowl.
What are you doing now?
Head Football Coach/ Athletic Director at New Brockton High School.
Comments
 I hope that I can prepare my athletes for life the way my coaches at Niceville prepared me for life.
Email:
strunkd@coffeecounty.k12.al.us
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Name:
Michael A Porter
Class of:
 1993
Position
 CB, RB
Jersey #
13
Most Memorable Moment:
On the first offensive play versus Orange Park in the playoffs my senior year, I took a hand-off from Josh Olmstead and raced 88 yards for the TD.
What are you doing now?
I'm currently a Sr. Systems Administrator and Team Lead for AT&T Mobility.
Email:
maporter5@yahoo.com
Name:
Matt Tierney
Class of:
 2002
Position
 LB
Jersey #
33
Most Memorable Moment:
Beating Pensacola High 14-6 to secure a spot in the playoffs.
What are you doing now?
Currently in the Air Force
Email:
ira040@yahoo.com
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Name:
Patrick Jackson
Class of:
 2004
Position
 FS/ OLB
Jersey #
12
Most Memorable Moment:
Beating Choctaw in double overtime. Shutting down the SEC's current receiving leader, DJ Hall, to only 12 yards.  WAR EAGLE !
What are you doing now?
Playing baseball at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, AL.
Email: 
pjackson@huntingdon.edu
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Name:
Tyler Lampert
Class of:
 2005
Position
 DL
Jersey #
64
Most Memorable Moment:
Beating Choctaw in overtime for the first time in four years, being on the bottom of a pile one game and looking over to see my buddy right there and say, "whats up what are you doin here?"
What are you doing now?
Going to Southwestern College (Winfield KS) playing football out here and majoring in athletic training
Comments
 Learned alot on that field, and most of it has transcended on to the field here at Southwestern !
Email: 
tyler.lampert@sckans.edu
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Name:
Nicole Morgan
Class of:
 2005
Position
 Manager
Most Memorable Moment:
Everything was amazing. I loved all the guys. Going to the Tech Bowl my senior year.
What are you doing now?
Im in the process of becoming a high school Athletic Trainer at The University of Southern Mississippi
Comments
 GO EAGLES!! Be proud of everything you do, It'll be over before you know it!
Email: 
faith.morgan@usm.edu
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Name:
Devon Freeman
Class of:
 2006
Position
 Running Back
Jersey #
9
Most Memorable Moment:
Scoring the winning touchdown against Gainesville in the district shootout....and, even though it was a loss, playing Lakeland at home in front of 12,000 fans!
What are you doing now?
I play football at Florida International University with my former NHS teammates, John Paul Fraites and John Houston Whiddon.
Comments
 GO NICEVILLE!!
Email:
nhsrb9@yahoo.com
Memory Lane Pictures
 FIU Signing
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