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Mia Hamant, the Washington goalkeeper who had been diagnosed with kidney cancer, dies following a months-long ordeal with the disease. She was 21 years old. After starring for UW in 2024, in April 2025 she was diagnosed with Stage 4 SMARCB1-deficient kidney cancer, an ultrarare form of the disease. She immediately began chemotherapy treatment and stepped away from the Huskies, though she attended every home game during what was supposed to be her senior season.
Washington names Lesle Gallimore, women's coach at San Diego State for four seasons, as Huskies' new coach. Gallimore, 30, replaces Dang Pibulvech, who had started the program and guided it to a No. 19 national ranking after three years.
Two goals from Al Kovats help Fox Restaurant get a 3-3 tie with Tacoma Heidelberg in Steilacoom, clinching the state league second-half title for the Foxes (7-1-1). Bob Hopper has a brace for Heidelberg. Fox will face Olympia Olys for the championship Mar. 31.
With temperatures soaring near 90 at kickoff, the Sounders and Timbers take to the Civic Stadium stage to the roar of 27,310 and the unfurling of a banner reading, ‘Portland: Soccer City, U.S.A.’ Peter Withe cancels out Dave Gillett’s opener and then adds another second-half goal in the Timbers' 2-1 win. The victory puts 15-points’ difference between the Timbers and Sounders entering the final two weeks of the regular season.
Twenty-two players quit the troubled Seattle Impact in protest of owner Dion Earl’s management style. Earl also coaches and plays for the team and has been served with a class action lawsuit by former employees.
Locals and visiting Soviets play “sportsmanlike” soccer at Lakeside School as organized by peace activist Dick Carbray. Tour arranged by youth travel agency Sputnik in USSR and Council of American-Soviet Friendship in U.S. It ends in 6-6 tie.