Everyone knows about Hurricane Katrina, which struck the Gulf Coast in 2005.
Less well known outside the area is Hurricane Ivan, which hit on Sept. 16, 2004. The West Florida men's soccer team remembers it well. The hurricane wiped out their season and those of women's soccer and volleyball.
While they were disappointed, the Argonauts didn't sit around. They did relief work in the surrounding community of Pensacola, Fla.
Two years later, the UWF men are one win away from advancing to the NCAA Division II final four. What would make the victory so special is that Pensacola is hosting the NCAA Division II National Championship Festival — an event involving six different fall championships. The festival will include a Habitat for Humanity project that will build six homes for needy families in the hurricane-affected area.
The Argonauts (19-1-2) face Queens Saturday in the quarterfinals at the UWF Soccer Complex. They are led by a pair of senior Brazilian transfers, 6-foot-5 Eduardo Oliviera and Felipe Lawall, but it was a pair of Floridians, Cole Chancellor and