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Wiesbaden’s Luke Jones leads the pack during the boys 1600 meter varsity run at the 2024 DODEA European Championships at Kaiserslautern High School in Kaiserslautern, Germany, on May 24, 2024, finishing with a time of 4:26.44.

Scores looking to join Jones, Goss as stars on the track

The DODEA-Europe season kicks off Friday with a large meet in Kaiserslautern, where all the top performers will converge in May for the season-ending championships.

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Kaiserslautern's Wesley Manson beats Ramstein's Kai Woodstock and heads the ball during a March 13, 2025, match at Kaiserslautern High School in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Royals sweep Raiders to open soccer season

Ramstein girls win 1-0 nail-biter, while boys top Kaiserslautern 3-0 in the first matchups of a spring sports season that’s now uncertain due to funding issues.

Ramstein junior Emma Inthavixay runs toward home plate during the Division I DODEA European softball championship game against Kaiserslautern on May 24, 2024, at Kaiserslautern High School in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Ramstein, Naples carry targets on their backs again

Royals and Wildcats have been the teams to beat in their respective divisions in recent seasons and still look strong this year.

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Edgren's Anthony Mulhall beat Kadena's Cedric Ferguson in the 114-pound final to become the Eagles' first Far East weight-class champion in 11 years.

Mulhall’s studied approach led to Far East title

Robert D. Edgren sophomore took up the sport as a freshman and was a quick study both in practice and in competition.

Kadena junior Brooke Brewer went unbeaten in 14 bouts this season, all by pin, and won the 145-pound title in the "Beast of the Far East" tournament.

Brewer showed competitive nature first year on the mat

Kadena junior was a perfect 14-0 this season in debut of girls wrestling as a separate sport in the Pacific.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Feb. 15, 2025) U.S. Naval Academy Midshipmen men's basketball junior forward Donovan Draper squares off against a defender during Navy’s game against the U.S. Military Academy Black Knights at Alumni Hall on the campus of the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. The men's team defeated Army 54-61 in the second game of a doubleheader, while the women fell to Army 68-64. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jacob D. Moore)

American University rides 25 points from Matt Rogers to Patriot League championship, 74-52 over Navy

Matt Rogers scored 25 points and second-seeded American University defeated Navy 74-52 on Wednesday night to claim the Patriot League Tournament Championship.

Joanna Hall of E.J. King High School tries to dribble between McKenzie Steele, left, and Priscilla Ramirez of Matthew C. Perry during a tournament at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Feb. 28, 2025.

DODEA reinstates travel for Pacific-based student-athletes after brief suspension

Student-athletes at Department of Defense Education Activity schools in the Pacific resumed travel Thursday for spring-season away games after a brief funding freeze.

Four military officers in dress uniforms stand next to each other at a table in a congressional hearing room.

‘A huge hit to us’: Senior service leaders warn of delays and disruptions under pending stopgap funding bill

The resulting temporary funding extension, known as a continuing resolution, will force the military services to operate with substantially less money than they expected, causing disruptions in programs and modernization efforts, according to service leaders.

Sigonella's Mikolaj Czernielewski pushes past Alconbury’s Taye Vickerstaff during a game at the DODEA-Europe soccer finals in Landstuhl, Germany, in May 2024. All DODEA athletic events in Europe have been postponed this weekend due to executive orders pausing non-mission essential travel and government travel card use, agency officials announced March 12, 2025.

DODEA schools can review decision to cancel sports events amid Pentagon travel pause

“We have been given authority to relook at some of the funding and how we travel to see what might be possible for this weekend,” Jessica Tackaberry, Department of Defense Education Activity Europe spokeswoman, told Stars and Stripes on Wednesday night.

Potential U.S. military recruits take the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery at Yokota Air Base, Japan, in 2021.

ASVAB test sites cut availability in wake of DOD restrictions on civilian travel

The Army’s U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command, which administers the entrance exam for all branches of the military, can no longer transport test proctors to all testing sites due to the department’s recent requirement that travel by civilian employees be curtailed.

Art Shallock in his New York Yankees cap.

Navy veteran who was the oldest living MLB player dies at 100

Art Schallock spent three years as a radio operator on the USS Coral Sea, an aircraft carrier deployed in the Pacific Ocean, including Iwo Jima and Okinawa, Japan.