Eight days earlier, Zama watched a 10-point lead evaporate in a two-point defeat at Yokota.
Hobbling around on a walking boot in late November, the result of an injury during volleyball, Jazlene Vergara said she wasn’t sure when – or if – she could finally suit up for Kadena’s basketball team.
Carrying on a tradition that dates back to the 1960s, members of the Misawa Chapel team visited Biko-en Orphanage in Shichinohe, Japan, this past holiday season, bringing gifts donated by the Misawa Air Base community.
Far East Division I boys basketball finals have definitely been fit to put grey hair on Nile C. Kinnick coach Robert Stovall.
If it wasn’t an injury, it was an illness. And another. And another. Some wrestlers sidelined for weeks at a time.
On a day in which multiple Far East weight-class champions shined and others were dethroned, American School In Japan snapped a 30-year Far East wrestling Division I title drought.
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In another time, Matthew C. Perry might have been viewed by other girls basketball teams as an “automatic W” whenever they took the court with the Samurai.
It’s not so much the teams you’ve already played, but the ones you haven’t seen that can make tournament play a challenge.
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That’s the narrative that sometimes follows a wrestler bearing the title “defending Far East champion” onto the mat whenever it comes time for them to compete.
Young soccer players from two Defense Department high schools on Okinawa trained recently with the coaches of Japan’s top-rated professional team
On any given February morning, you might see hundreds of young students – some with parents, or even teachers, in tow – flocking to a nearby high school or university.
All season, coach Stan Hovell had pined for his boys and girls teams to come away with a title sweep in a major in-season wrestling tournament.