Professional women’s basketball has arrived in the First Coast area. The Upshot League, featuring four teams, premiered on Friday, May 15, at the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena, where the Jacksonville Waves took on the Charlotte Crown.
The team is named in honor of the pioneering WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), a World War II program that recruited over 100,000 women for stateside shore duties. During opening night, the team honored Betty Robertson Digby, one of the few original WAVES members still with us today.
The Jacksonville Waves aim to channel that same fearless spirit on the court. Despite playing with great energy before a sold-out crowd, the Waves fell to the Charlotte Crown in their debut.
The season runs through the end of August at the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena. For more information regarding the schedule, tickets, and roster, please visit their website at https://wavesupshot.com.
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Tobias D. Wilson, with the artist’s name of Endofthehwy media, was inspired by the literally the end of the Maine state highway 24. This was one of my favorite spots to visit while stationed at now now-closed Naval Air Station Brunswick, Maine, between 2004 to 2007.
I have been married now to a wonderful lady for 18 years and together we have one child, a nine-year-old daughter. We settled in St. Johns County after I retired from the US Navy after 20 years. My specialty in the military was administration and logistics. I am currently a stay-at-home dad and a volunteer at my local church.
In 2013, during outpatient treatment at Walter Reed Medical Center for deployment-related health issues, I was encouraged to find a hobby that I loved. I choose photography to see life through the lens.
I had the great opportunity to volunteer for two years as a still photographer for Honor Flights of Columbus, an organization dedicated to getting veterans to the memorials in Washington DC. My photos contributed to the flight mission video published on the organization’s website and YouTube channel. As a photographer, there was such joy to see the veterans return home to a hero’s welcome and be able to capture it.
