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Neil Kentish caught one of two touchdown passes for Kadena against ASIJ.

Neil Kentish caught one of two touchdown passes for Kadena against ASIJ. (Greg Holladay/Special to Stripes)

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa – Getting a handful of student-athletes from DODEA-Pacific schools heading to college on athletic scholarship in a single year is usually considered quite the feat.

Call this spring quite unusual, then – 20 seniors are moving up to the next level, 14 combined from Kadena and Kubasaki on Okinawa, with four headed to NAIA Olivet Nazarene of Joliet, Ill., alone.

How is that possible?

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