Kubasaki's football team is hoping to raise its first Far East Division I title trophy since 2013 and halt a run of two straight years of losing to Kadena in the season finale.

Kubasaki will rely on speed and execution

Dragons, who have lost in Division-I title game last two seasons, don’t have the size to outmuscle most opponents.

Quarterback DeShaun Nixon hands off to running back Ethan Ferch in practice and could happen quite a bit in Kadena's backfield this season.

Kadena loaded up for another run at title

Panthers bring back most of line, though overall numbers are lower as program looks to extend record for Far East championships.

Kadena senior Neil Kentish said he was looking forward to Monday's first football practice even as far back as Oct. 28, when the Panthers won their Pacific-record eighth straight Division I title.

DODEA athletes return to practice fields, courts

Monday is first day of official practice for football, volleyball, cross country, tennis and golf in both Europe and Pacific theaters.

Maria Escano will compete at 57 kilograms for Guam in the Summer Olympic Games later this month in Paris.

DODEA grad will represent Guam at Olympics

Maria Escano graduated from Seoul American in 2019 and currently attends university in Japan.

Kubasaki coach Brent Cook and his Dragons wrestlers celebrate their repeat Far East Division I individual freestyle team title. The Dragons would go on to sweep both D-I team titles, individual freestyle and dual meet, giving Cook three Far East wrestling banners in his four years of coaching.

Kubasaki’s Cook earns Marine Corps JROTC Instructor of Year award

Kubasaki coach Brent Cook has been named Marine Corps’ JROTC Instructor of the Year.

Seo Bum Gue, right, a South Korean national team wrestler, spars with a U.S. Army soldier during a wrestling seminar in Carey Fitness Center at Camp Casey, South Korea, June 18, 2024.

South Korean wrestlers put US troops through Camp Casey clinic

Some of the best wrestlers in South Korea recently put on a combat wrestling seminar at Camp Casey.

Team Tama captured the team championship for the third straight year in the All-Japan Interservice Golf Tournament, played June 8-9 at the Tama Hills Golf Course in Tokyo's western suburbs. Members of Team Tama are three-time Captains Flight champion Chong Delisi, Timothy Fearney, Patrick Bowman, Christopher Swope, Ryan Christensen, First Flight champion Dale Bergman, John Shone, Hector Cavazos, Andrew Roddan, Hugh Montgomery-Jones, Kelly Cook, Anthony Melici, Manuel Campo, Archie Obiacoro, Patrick Roberts, Houjston Clark, Byron Wrenn, men's Senior Flight champion Troy Oliver, Todd Eddy, Nelson Lofton, Nelson Fisher, Briian Pritchett, Tommy Palmer, Greg Holladay, Yoko Loftin and Jenna Witmer.

Delisi wins Captain’s Flight again, leads Tama to third title

Chong Delisi continues to make Tama Hills Golf Course and the All-Japan interservice golf tournament his own. The Yokota Air Base civilian captured the top-tier Captain’s Flight for the third straight year.

Robert D. Edgren senior Mackenzie Byrne excelled in the 50- and 100-meter freestyle and in the butterfly and backstroke events for her Misawa Sharks and Wing Misawa swim teams.

Schools across Pacific select their top athletes

Most of those chosen starred in DODEA sports, but a few excelled on or off base in sports not offered by military schools system.

Kubasaki graduate Brodie Romnek next heads to Michigan, where he'll play baseball for Division II Hillsdale College on full scholarship.

Some DODEA-Pacific athletes will play at next level

At least eight seniors on various teams in and out of school have agreed to scholarships to play sports at universities in the States next fall.

St. Mary's senior William Beardsley exits high school career the Pacific and DODEA Far East meet record holder in track's 1,600- and 3,200-meter runs and cross country meets.

St. Mary’s Beardsley striving towards unreachable goal

Boys record holder in cross country and distance events doesn’t think he’s come close to “perfect race.”