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Championship Youth Coach Passes at Age 63
June 3, 2025

Mike Bartley, whose Snohomish County high school teams achieved great success, dies at age 63 from pancreatic cancer. Bartly, a Cascade High School and Everett Community College alumnus, began his prep coaching career in 1986 at Eastside Catholic, then returned to Snohomish County when he took up coaching duties with Jackson, Meadowdale and Archbishop Murphy. He won four state titles between the boys and girls teams at Archbishop Murphy, most recently in 2021.

U.S. Captain Davis Comes to Storm
May 2, 1989

FC Seattle Storm reaches a loan agreement with U.S. Soccer for national team captain Ricky Davis. For the past two seasons Davis, 30, has played for the Tacoma Stars. He has 41 appearances and nine goals for Team USA but is recovering from arthroscopic knee surgery.

Sounders Selects Reach Regional Final
July 27, 2001

Sy Reeves scored the go-ahead goal in the 83rd minute, and the Seattle Sounders Selects defeat the Denver Cougars, 3-1, in a Western Conference semifinal game at Santa Ana Bowl. Seattle scores all three of its goals during the second half to reach the USL PDL final eight. Reeves's goal comes four minutes after a Denver player is ejected. James Vert is denied by the Cougars keeper, but Reeves makes no mistake with an open net. Greg Foisie scores the Selects opener, and Todd Stauber adds an insurance goal with three minutes remaining. Calgary defeats Seattle, 3-0, the following night and proceeds to make the PDL final.

Seattle Official Referees Concacaf Final
April 20, 2024

Seattle's Josh Wilkens referees the Concacaf futsal final between Panama and Cuba (4-3) in Managua, Nicaragua. Wilkens, a veteran MASL official, referees four tournament games in all.

Sounders Women Begin Stretch Run
July 13, 2003

Melissa Bennett helps set-up two goals, and Tina Frimpong scores in her debut at Sounders Women begin the final month of the regular season by beating Denver Lady Cougars, 3-0, at Seahawks Stadium. Bennett finds Shannon Forslund for a first-half header and Frimpong for another header in the 67th minute. It's the start of a three-game win streak to finish league play, with the combined wins against the Colorado a 13-0 goal differential.

Puget Sound Gets Second 300 WInner
October 5, 2019

Puget Sound becomes the first school to boast two 300-win coaches as Reece Olney surpasses the milestone with 2-0 win over Willamette. Sean Hamel and Angel Herrera-Flores score on either side of halftime for the Loggers. In 2015, former women's coach Randy Hanson preceded Olney with 300 victories at UPS.

(Courtesy Seattle Times)
1957
State 3A champion Shorecrest High School. (Frank MacDonald Collection)
1985
Seattle Greeks of the State League, ca. 1952. (Courtesy Peter Mitalas family)
1952
Opening ceremonies for the 1971 Canadian Exchange. (Courtesy Washington Youth Soccer News)
1971
Starfire Sports co-founders (L to R) Steve Beck, Mark Bickham and Chris Slatt, at the 20th anniversary of the facility’s opening on Oct. 24, 2023. (Courtesy Starfire Sports)
2023
Ballard FC's Peter Kingston (L) and Leo Burney (r) celebrate Kingston's late game-winning free kick vs. Capital FC at Interbay in 2023. (Courtesy Ballard FC/Blake Dahlin)
2023
U.S. National Team poses during a pre-World Cup summer series in China.
1991
1966
(Courtesy Seattle Times archives)
1979
Obafemi Martins brought his trademark somersault celebration to Seattle in 2013. (Courtesy Sounders FC)
2013