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FC Seattle Will Not Be Back
February 21, 1992

FC Seattle Storm, after suspending play for 1991, announces it will cease operations. A year earlier, the APSL club went on hiatus after seven seasons. At its height, FC Seattle operated both high-level men's and women's senior teams, an amateur city league, plus camps and clinics. Owner Bud Greer estimates he invested $500,000-700,000 annually. The APSL has shrunk from 22 teams in 1990 to five for upcoming 1992 season.

Fan Favorite Balcer Traded by Reign
August 19, 2024

Bethany Balcer, a fan favorite, is traded by the Seattle Reign to Louisville for midfielder Jaelin Howell. Howell has five U.S. caps since being a two-time Hermann Award winner and two-time NCAA champion at Florida State. Balcer was undrafted yet voted 2019 Rookie of the Year, and her 33 league goals is No. 3 in Reign history.

Wingo Scores for Fast-Starting Ferencvaros
September 30, 2023

Seattle's Henry Wingo scores as Ferencvaros wins its fifth straight to open the Hungarian first division season, 6-1, at MTK. It's Wingo's first league goal and second overall for the defender in five seasons with Ferencvaros, which has won the last five league titles.

Transfer Pay Immediate Dividends for SPU
September 7, 1991

Seattle Pacific emerges victorious from a tournament amongst three Division I teams in Las Vegas after blanking host UNLV, 3-0. The Falcons, flush with UW transfers James Dunn, Jason Dunn and Jason Farrell, start 6-0-0 on the road. Jason and James Dunn each score vs. UNLV. SPU beat Cal State Fullerton, 1-0, in the first game of the tourney, which also included Wisconsin Green Bay. During the season Seattle Pacific is 5-2-0 vs. Div. I opponents.

Sounders Publish Magazine
October 1, 1974

The Seattle Sounders begin publishing a monthly tabloid entitled Soccer Washington. At least 10,000 copies will be printed of each issue through the offseason, covering both the Sounders and amateurs and youth.

Hahnemann, Keller Lift Gold Cup
July 24, 2005

Kasey Keller makes a point-blank save in extra time and another in the penalty-kick tiebreaker, enabling the USMNT to win its third Gold Cup over Panama 0-0 (3-1) in East Rutherford, N.J. In all, Keller made five saves to earn the clean sheet. He stops the first Panama shootout attempt by Luis Tejada. Two later attempts hit the crossbar and sail high.

Skagit Valley College finished unbeaten (15-0-3) en route to claiming its eighth NWAC crown in 1988. (Courtesy NWAC)
1988
1964 Seattle CYO All-Stars (Courtesy Mike Mikkelsen/Pep Peery Collection)
1964
1992
A North American record crowd witnessed the Kingdome's first sporting event. (Courtesy Seattle Times)
1976
Seattle Pacific coach Chuck Sekyra and his players salute the parents and fans who traveled to Tampa to support their NCAA championship run. (Courtesy Seattle Pacific)
2008
Courtesy Western Front archives
1964
Eddie Henderson was a standout for both Washington and FC Seattle in 1989. (Courtesy Joanie Komura/Frank MacDonald Collection)
1989
Tacoma's Jeff Durgan left the Cosmos for Team America and debuted for the USMNT in 1983.
1983
Seattle area natives (from left) Lori Henry, Michelle Akers, Shannon Higgins and Amy Allmann celebrate after winning the World Cup.
1991
1967