JAPAN
Matthew Rowland runs the course.

Yokota's Matthew Rowland capped his senior season by winning the Far East D-II cross-country race a second straight year and helping the Panthers win successive Far East team banners. (Natalie DeLeo/Special to Stripes)

Once was not enough, in Matthew Rowland’s view.

He and Yokota’s cross country team capped the 2024 DODEA-Pacific season by sweeping all the team banners the Far East meet had to offer. Rowland, then a junior, also won the Division II boys 5-kilometer individual race.

So, why not go for it all again? Rowland said he told himself entering the just-completed 2025 campaign.

Read more at stripes.com.

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