A member of the German police force in Mainz Kastel takes a break to view a game Thursday at the Bereitschafts Polizei Mainz Kasterl gymansium. The polizei opened their gym for the first time to help host this years European championships. Dan Blottenberger/Stars and Stripes
By Dan Blottenberger
Published: February 23, 2012
Hundreds of high school basketball players are participating in multiple games each day at the DODDS-Europe basketball championships this week in and around Wiesbaden, Germany. But American military facilities can only handle so much.
Enter the German police.
By Rusty Bryan
Published: February 14, 2012
DODDS-Europe athletic director Karen Seadore released a list of the wild-card entries Tuesday for this weekend’s DODDS-Europe wrestling championships at Wiesbaden Army Airfield.
Forty-four wild cards joined the 112 wrestlers who qualified automatically by finishing first or second at last Saturday’s four sectional qualifying meets.
By Rusty Bryan
Published: January 31, 2012
While the races in Regions II, III and IV look to go down to the wire as the regular basketball season winds down over the next three weeks, Rota’s boys and girls and SHAPE’s girls took care of business last weekend in Region I.
Rota’s boys went 6-0 Thursday-Saturday at Alconbury, sweeping to the “small-schools” version of the Region I crown contested by Alconbury, Brussels, Menwith Hill and Rota. Rota’s girls were a three-ball away from duplicating their boys’ performance at Alconbury, falling to Brussels 16-14 to finish the three-day marathon at 5-1.
By Rusty Bryan
Published: January 23, 2012
Wrestlers in Europe don’t participate in dual meets, but Saturday’s four-team tournament at Vilseck was almost the same thing. With several placers from the 2011 European tournament squaring off, Patch edged Ramstein 264.5-243.5. Since Vilseck and Hohenfels were a distant third and fourth, with 72 and 10 points, respectively, and never figured in the final outcome, the quadrangular meet evolved into the equivalent of a Patch-Ramstein dual.
The 2011 103-pound champion, Ross Wilson, got the Panthers started by pinning 2011 103-pound runner-up Ryan Goins of Ramstein in 1:27 on Saturday to win the 113-pound class. Wilson decked Goins in 3:31 last February in the 103-pound European final.
By Rusty Bryan
Published: December 13, 2011
HEIDELBERG, Germany – Two-time All-Europe outside hitter Allison Gunsch signed a letter of intent recently to play volleyball for Colorado Christian University in Lakewood, Colo.
Gunsch, a home-schooled student who played for Heidelberg for four years, was an all-region choice for three of those seasons and in her final two seasons made the Division I all-tournament team and All-Europe, according to her mother, Deb.
By Rusty Bryan
Published: December 6, 2011
The website Military.com is accepting nominations for its All-DOD team of high school football players worldwide who are dependents of active-duty service people.
The all-star team, which according to a news release is a joint project of Military.com and All-American Games and is purely honorary, is to be composed of 11 offensive players, 11 defensive players, a punter and a placekicker.
By Rusty Bryan
Published: December 6, 2011
Former Kaiserslautern Kingfish star Stephen Tarnowski, a sophomore at The College of New Jersey, set three school records last week, one of them fast enough to qualify him for the NCAA Division III championships in March in Indianapolis.
According to the college website, Tarnowski established his records on three consecutive days in a three-day meet which ended Sunday. His school-record time of 3:58.03 in the 400-meter individual medley was fast enough to qualify Tarnowski for the event at the national championships, scheduled for March 21-24 in Indianapolis.
Tarnowski, an honor graduate from Ramstein High School, also swam the 200 individual medley in 1:51.62 and the 200 backstroke in 1:51.50. Those times, too, were fastest ever swum by an athlete from the school, located in Ewing, N.J.
By Rusty Bryan
Published: November 17, 2011
Patch boys’ basketball coach Bill Lassetter has announced his school’s plan to conduct a 12-team pool-play followed by single-elimination boys’ basketball tournament Dec. 27-29.
In a Thursday newsletter, Lassetter said each team in the event, which is to be filled on a first-come, first-served basis, is guaranteed a minimum of four games. The same officials and scorekeepers who work regular-season high school games will work the event, which is sanctioned by DODDS-Europe, but not sponsored by the school system. Participating teams therefore will be responsible for their own transportation and lodging expenses. Free billeting will be available, however.
By Rusty Bryan
Published: November 16, 2011
Naples cross country coach Chip Noonan points out that Shannon Cuthbert, who led the Naples girls to the European Division II title in 2009, placed sixth to help the Naval Academy down Army 25-31 recently in a meet run over the USMA golf course in West Point, N.Y.
Cuthbert, according to the Naval Academy website, covered the six-kilometer course in 21:59.7 on Oct. 15 to place sixth overall and finish in Navy’s top five for the fifth time in five meets up to that point. It was the second time in 2011 that Cuthbert was named the Patriot League Rookie of the Week.
By Rusty Bryan
Published: November 16, 2011
Hollie Salvo, who won the DODDS-Europe golf championship as a freshman in 2008 and as a sophomore the following year, has accepted an offer of a full scholarship to play college golf for The Citadel in Charleston, S.C.
Salvo, whose senior season at Grissom High School in Huntsville, Ala., is scheduled to begin in March, signed with The Citadel after a visit to the school, according to her former coach at Wiesbaden, Jim Campbell.
“When she went for the visit, she told me she was thinking, ‘Citadel – no way,’ ” Campbell said recently. “But after the visit, she came back ready to sign. She loved the place.”
Salvo, who finished second in Europe to Ramstein’s Elizabeth Ward as junior in 2010, has won four tournaments since moving to Alabama in July, according to Keith Cromartie of the Army Materiel Command in Huntsville.
