Vilseck’s Samual Broyles edges out Kaiserslautern’s Quincy Seaberry in the boys 200-meter race at the 2025 DODEA-Europe track and field finals in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Broyles crossed the finish line in 22.86 seconds to Seaberry’s 22.88. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – The “K-town” chant rocked the close of the DODEA-Europe track and field championships on Friday.
The Raiders swept the boys’ and girls’ Division I team titles, using their depth and versatility to dominate on their home turf.
They started repeating their school’s nickname when the team scores were announced, though the final tally was hardly a surprise.
The Raiders’ dominance was on full display at the Kaiserslautern High School stadium, as both teams scored in all but two of 34 events to easily down runner-up Ramstein.
“We won the girls’ championship last year,” coach Jason Steadman said, “so we knew that we had the girls to do it. This is the year for the first time since I’ve been here that we’ve had the depth in the boys to really see it through.”
Kaiserslautern took gold in 10 events, including three relays, all four hurdle races, the girls’ 800 meters and the boys’ 100 meters, and the girls’ shot put.
Leading the way for Kaiserslautern on the girls’ side was junior Lellah Guhn, who racked up three gold medals – in the 100 and 300 hurdles and as a member of the Raiders’ winning 400-meter relay team.
After falling in the 300 hurdles at last year’s European championships, Guhn said coming back to win the event this year in 45.22 seconds was her proudest moment.
“I was really sad, but I continued working this whole season and I think it really showed,” she said.
Kaiserslautern’s Lellah Guhn clears the final hurdle on the way to winning the girls 300-meter hurdle event in 45.22 seconds, at the 2025 DODEA-Europe track and field finals in Kaiserslautern, Germany, (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)
Sigonella’s Rickalia Goss beats Wiesbaden’s Lana Winters to the finish line in the girls 200-meter race at the 2025 DODEA-Europe track and field finals in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Goss won in 25.08 seconds ahead of 25.16 for Winters. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)
Ramstein’s Danica Johnson clears the bar at 5 feet, 3 inches to win the girls high jump competition at the 2025 DODEA-Europe track and field finals in Kaiserslautern, Germany, (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)
Vicenza’s Mitchell Horrigan heads into the final lap of the boys 3,200-meter race ahead of AFNORTH’s Logan Conrad. Horrigan won the event at the 2025 DODEA-Europe track and field finals in Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 9 minutes, 49.33 seconds. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)
Ramstein’s Javier Harrington tossed the discus 141 feet, 10 inches, to win the boys competition at the 2025 DODEA-Europe track and field finals in Kaiserslautern, Germany, May 23, 2025. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)
For the Kaiserslautern boys, junior Quincy Seaberry had a stellar day, starting with a gold medal in the 100-meter dash, overcoming a fifth seed and setting a personal record of 11.25 seconds.
He also anchored the Raiders’ winning 400-meter relay team, edging Stuttgart’s Tymir Johnson at the finish line.
“I’ve been dreaming about getting this title ever since I was a freshman,” he said. The victory was especially sweet considering last year’s outcome in the same race, when a different Raiders squad dropped the baton and was disqualified.
“It was redemption this year,” Seaberry said. “We came and collected.”
The same could be said of Sigonella’s Rickalia Goss. The senior showed she was ready for the top spot in the sprints, after spending years chasing Wiesbaden phenom Makiah Parker, who graduated last year. Goss took gold in the 100, 200 and 400 and finished second in the long jump. She was named the meet’s Most Outstanding Athlete for the girls in running events.
“It feels good,” Goss said of finally sprinting her way to gold at Europeans. But she misses the stiff competition from years’ past. “I still wish Makiah was here so we could compete against each other,” she said.
Vilseck’s Mazie Lorcher, congratulates an emotional Alexandra Beck of Kaiserslautern, after Beck won the girls 800-meter race in 2 minutes, 25.02 seconds at the 2025 DODEA-Europe track and field finals in Kaiserslautern, Germany, May 23, 2025. Lorcher finished second. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)
Sigonella’s Rickalia Goss won the girls 400-meter race at the 2025 DODEA-Europe track and field finals in Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 57.76 seconds. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)
Wiesbaden’s Alanna Donahue won the girls long jump competition at the 2025 DODEA-Europe track and field finals in Kaiserslautern, Germany, with a leap of18 feet, 8.50 inches. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)
Kaiserslautern’s Sevastian Quiles clears the final hurdle ahead of Jacob Berkau of Hohenfels, on his way to winning the boys 300-meter hurdle race in 41.83 seconds, at the 2025 DODEA-Europe track and field finals in Kaiserslautern, Germany. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)
Vilseck’s Samuel Broyles powers his way to the finish line on his way to winning the 400-meter race at the 2025 DODEA-Europe track and field finals, in Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 50.91 seconds. At left is Aviano’s Christian Perkins, at right SHAPE’s Tudor Varvari. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)
The nod to the boys’ Most Outstanding Runner went to Vilseck’s Samuel Broyles, who won the 200 and 400 and finished a close second to Seaberry in the 100.
The senior was on a quest to better his performance from last year’s finals, when he placed sixth in the 200 and 400. “I was just gassed, exhausted, injured,” he said, “and I just thought about it on the way home that I just wasn’t satisfied. I’ve thought about that every day since last year and I’ve spent the whole year working for it.”
The boys’ Outstanding Athlete for field events was Fredrick Boateng of Naples, who won the long jump and finished third in the triple and high jumps.
Wiesbaden’s Alanna Donahue was named the top field performer for the girls. Donahue set a personal record with her winning mark of 18 feet, 8.5 inches in the long jump, beating Goss by nearly six inches. Donahue, who also won the triple jump on Thursday, said her goal was to break the longstanding DODEA Europe-record of 19 feet, 2.25 inches, set in 1984 by Karlsruhe’s Nena Gage. That feat is still in reach, considering Donahue is only a sophomore.
Also gunning for a record down the road is Ramstein freshman Danica Johnson. Johnson won the high jump with a mark of five feet, 3 inches. Her last attempt of 5-5, which would have tied the European record, almost succeeded.
“My heel hit (the bar) at the last second,” she said. “It stayed on but then it wobbled off. I’m coming for the record next year.”
Kaiserslautern’s Joshua Kim speeds away after taking the baton from teammate Denver Dait in the boys 4x100-meter relay at the 2025 DODEA-Europe track and field finals, in Kaiserslautern, Germany, With teammates Quincy Seaberry and Noah Perez, the Raiders won the race in 44.29 seconds. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)
Kaiserslautern’s Lillian Griffin cheers on teammate Lellah Guhn after passing her the baton in the girls 4x100-meter relay at the 2025 DODEA-Europe track and field finals in Kaiserslautern, Germany. The pair, along with Trinity Seaberry and Kaelyn Ronnau, won the race in 49.72 second. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)
Wiesbaden’s Zion Thompson won the boys triple jump completion at the 2025 DODEA-Europe track and field finals in Kaiserslautern, Germany, with a 45 feet, 1/2 inch effort. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)
Ramstein’s Caroline Swinson won the girls 1,600-meter race at the 2025 DODEA-Europe track and field finals in Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 5 minutes, 25.25 seconds ahead of Stuttgart’s Anna Konon (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)
Kaiserslautern’s Quincy Seaberry, center, won the boys 100-meter race at the 2025 DODEA-Europe track and field finals, in Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 11.26 seconds, ahead of Vilseck’s Samuel Broyles and Wiesbaden’s Zion Thompson. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)
The Ramstein boys’ 3,200 relay team was also in striking distance of a new record. In a close race with Kaiserslautern, the quartet of Rhett Dalling, Spencer Jackson, Ryan Izaguirre and Adden Lowe ran 8:10.21, less than four seconds shy of the 2016 record set by Stuttgart.
On the last lap, Lowe was neck-and-neck with Kaiserslautern’s Collin Higgins before pulling ahead by a few seconds down the home stretch.
“This is our first time running together as a team,” Dalling said. “We just wanted to try our best, but we were always shooting for first.”
Other noteworthy performers included Ramstein’s Caroline Swinson in the 1,600. The junior held off Stuttgart freshman Anna Konon to win in 5:25.25, a new personal record by about 7 seconds.
“I just death sprinted” the last 100 meters or so, Swinson said, with Konon only a few strides back. “I’m so happy. I’m really excited.”
Kaiserslautern’s Alexandra Beck had a surprise win in the 800. The sophomore, seeded eighth, ran the race of her life, holding off a late surge by Vilseck’s Mazie Lorcher to clock 2:25.02, a personal best by about five seconds.
“My coach was telling me it doesn’t matter the rankings, it matters how you run in that moment,” Beck said.
Beck had little time to rest after the win, coming back less than 30 minutes after the 800 to anchor Kaiserslautern’s winning sprint medley relay.
The boys’ sprint medley came down to the wire, with Wiesbaden’s Luke Jones battling it out with SHAPE’s Dario Delgado Vitores on the anchor leg. Jones outsprinted Delgado Vitores by less than a second after a furious finish down the stretch.
“He’s outstanding,” Jones said of Delgado Vitores. “I don’t know if I could have pulled that kick off at the end without him because he really pushes me to my limits.”
The meet wrapped up with perhaps the biggest nailbiter of the day. In the boys’ 1,600 relay, Stuttgart beat Kaiserslautern by less than a second, 3:32.86 to 3:32.90.
Hohenfels’ Kenya Tucker and Kaiserslautern’s Lellah Guhn are even going over the last hurdle in the girls 100-meter hurdles event at the 2025 DODEA-Europe track and field finals, in Kaiserslautern, Germany, but Guhn went on to win the race in 15.48 seconds ahead of Tucker’s15.52. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)
Sigonella’s Rickalia Goss crosses the finish line in the girls 100-meter dash ahead of Wiesbaden’s Lana Winters, left, and Kaiserslautern’s Trinity Seaberry. Goss’s winning time at at the 2025 DODEA-Europe track and field finals, in Kaiserslautern, Germany, was 12.33 seconds. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)
Kaiserslautern’s Madison Ringer won the girls shot put competition at the 2025 DODEA-Europe track and field finals, in Kaiserslautern, Germany, with a throw of 31 feet, 6.50 inches. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)
Hohenfels’ Kenya Tucker and Kaiserslautern’s Lellah Guhn are even going over the last hurdle in the girls 100-meter hurdles event at the 2025 DODEA-Europe track and field finals, in Kaiserslautern, Germany, but Guhn went on to win the race in 15.48 seconds ahead of Tucker’s15.52. (Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes)
