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Portland Clinches First NCSC Title
October 29, 1988

Portland clinches its first Northwest Collegiate Soccer Conference title and stays perfect (18-0-0) with a 1-0 victory over Seattle Pacific. Woodinville's Trent Schultz sets-up Rob Baarts for the Pilots' goal in the fourth minute, and Olympia's Kasey Keller gets the shutout without making a save. Portland is ranked No. 2 in NCAA Division I and SPU is No. 2 in Division II after entering the game on a seven-game win streak.

Sounders U23s Clinch Division
July 10, 2012

A three-goal, first-half barrage takes Seattle Sounders U23s to the top of the Northwest Division with a 3-0 win over North Sound SeaWolves on the final day of the regular season at Franklin Pierce High School. Sean Morris, Aodhan Quinn and Sean Okoli combine to make it 3-nil after 40 minutes. Winners of six straight, Seattle finishes four points in front of Portland and Kitsap. Four days earlier, the U23s staged a late, 2-1 comeback to beat the Pumas in Bremerton. A year earlier, as Tacoma Tide, they were dead last in the division.

State Finals Move from Memorial
April 24, 1990

Washington Interscholastic Activities Association announces that the boys' state AAA and AA quarterfinals, semifinals and final are moving from Seattle's Memorial Stadium. Bellevue's Sammamish High School will now host. The reasoning: Sammamish's new turf and wider field is more suited to soccer. Memorial has hosted the final since the WIAA tournament's inception in 1975.

Washington Reaches No. 1 for First Time
September 15, 1998

For the first time in 37 seasons of varsity play, Washington reaches the men's No. 1 ranking in the NSCAA coaches' poll. Dean Wurzberger's Huskies, who moved up from No. 2, are 5-0-0 and coming off a 2-0 win over No. 8 Rutgers in Portland.

Sounders Add Brazilian DP
January 31, 2020

The Sounders add a new Designated Player, signing Brazilian midfielder João Paulo, 28. João Paulo spent the past three seasons with Rio de Janeiro's Botafogo. He joins Nicolás Lodeiro and Raúl Ruidíaz as Seattle's current DPs and is the club's 15th DP since 2009.

Edmonds Boys Lift Lipton Cup
March 31, 1968

Triumph Continental, a U18 team from Edmonds, defeats the U16 Lake Hills Spartans, 4-0, for the Sir Thomas Lipton Cup at West Seattle Stadium.

Nate Jaqua is bloodied early but scores the late equalizer in the U.S. Open Cup semifinal win over Houston.
2009
Estera Levinte of Western Washington cuts inside against West Chester in the 2022 NCAA Division II Women's Championship game at Interbay Stadiu. (Courtesy Michael Potash/Western Washington)
2022
Alex Morgan scored in her second regular season game for Sounders Women. (Courtesy Sounders Women)
2012
Sounders FC fans celebrated the 2019 MLS Cup title with the presentation of the trophy and the unfurling of the championship banner before 40,126 on March 1, 2020. (Courtesy Charis Wilson/Sounders FC)
2020
FIFA president Gianni Infantino, second from left, joins Adrian Hanauer, SEA 2026 chair  Peter Tomozawa, SEA 2026 CEO  and David Young, FGI operations chief, for a tour of Lumen Field, a venue for both the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup and the 2026 World Cup. (Sounders FC/Jane Gershsovich)
2024
In 2018, Skagit Valley College rededicated its Mount Vernon home pitch as Wally Sigmar Field to honor the Cardinals' founding coach. (Courtesy Skagit Valley College)
2018
1958
1965 CYO All-Stars, coached by Mike Ryan (l) and Eddie Craggs. (Courtesy George Craggs family)
1965
Michelle Akers lifts the Chiquita Cup trophy.
1992
Clint Dempsey scores the playoff opener vs. LA Galaxy. (Courtesy Corky Trewin/Sounders FC)
2015