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Weaver Wins Rookie of the Year
September 29, 2006

Sounders striker Cam Weaver of Kent is voted USL Rookie of the Year. Weaver finished tied for the league lead in goals (18) and total points (39) with Miami's Romario. He is the club's third rookie of the year in the A-League/USL era, joining Jason Dunn (1994) and Greg Howes (2000).

Huskies Snap Stanford Home Streak
October 30, 2016

Washington deals defending national champion Stanford its only Pac-12 loss and first home defeat in 22 games, 1-0 in overtime. The 16th-ranked Huskies get eight saves from Auden Schilder to silence the No. 9 Cardinal, then Justin Schmidt heads in Handwalla Bwana's corner kick 80 seconds into extra time. UW goes onto win a sixth straight, 1-0 vs. UCLA. Bwana is later voted conference freshman of the year.

De Rosario Sparks Defiance Fight Back
July 7, 2024

Tacoma caps a three-match homestand with its third straight win, coming from two goals down to defeat Sporting Kansas City II, 4-3, by scoring the tying and winning goals a minute apart in stoppage in time. Trailing 3-1 at halftime, Osaze De Rosario pulls the Defiance a goal back in the 48th minute. Two minutes into stoppage time, De Rosario knots the match at 3-3 off a rebound. Then Faysal Bettache, whose earlier penalty was saved, converts another rebound for the winner.

SPU Goes OT to Oust SU from NCAAs
November 2, 2006

Seattle Pacific and Seattle University fly over a thousand miles to settle the score in an NCAA Division II first-round game that extends to overtime in La Jolla, Calif. SPU freshman Janae Godoy pokes home the winner from a feed by Sarah Martinez at 107:39 to lift the No. 18 Falcons to a 1-0 victory over the No. 11 Redhawks, who had swept the regular season series. In the regional tournament’s nightcap, top-seeded UC San Diego eliminates Western Washington, 4-0.

Skyline Boys Complete 4A Sweep
May 27, 2023

Two goals in the final eight minutes send Skyline to the boys' 4A championship, 2-0 over Puyallup at Spark Stadium. The Spartans, runners-up three times, including 2022, follow on the Skyline girls winning state six months earlier. A scoreless deadlock is broken open by Colin McKenna's long free kick that somehow finds its way through a crowd in the 72nd minute. Braden Ferreira clinches the title in 79'.

Tacoma Goes Overtime to Take Seventh Straight
April 22, 1987

Tacoma wins a record ninth overtime game, a 6-5 victory over Los Angeles, to extend its winning streak to seven games at home. It's the third Stars-Lazers meeting in 10 days, and all are one-goal decisions. Joe Waters scores the OT winner. Rookie Peter Hattrup, in his first game for the Stars, ties the score on a breakaway 5:06 into the second quarter on his first MISL shot.

Sounders forward Clint Dempsey brushes off a Portuguese defender Ricardo Costa's challenge in a 2014 World Cup group stage match in Manaus, Brazil. Dempsey scored in the 2-2 draw. (Courtesy John Todd / ISI Photos)
2014
1978
2006
Katie Michkiosky scored a record 20 goals for Northwest in 2018. (Courtesy Northwest Athletics)
2018
Inaugural team photo for Sounders FC.
2009
(Courtesy Soccer America)
1984
Hope Solo did not allow a goal in seven starts for the USWNT in 2005. (Courtesy Michael Pimentel / ISI Photos)
2005
Gonzaga won a program record 12 games under Shannon Stiles to make their first postseason appearance in 2005. (Courtesy Gonzaga Athletics)
2005
Seattle's Celtics, shown here in 1913, adopted hoops like their Glasgow namesake.
1919
(Courtesy Seattle Times)
1957