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.

A late-winter storm dumps snow on Burien's Highline Stadium turf for the final two cup finals of the Washington State Junior Soccer Association championships. Still, some 2,500 family and fans see the tournament's final match, with U19 Newport Hill Huskies winning a seventh straight boys' title on penalties, 3-3 (6-5), over Lake Hills Sammamish. Federal Way teams, led by the U13 boys Totem Tornado's fourth cup in a row, win five of the 20 finals.

Mike O’Malley, 27, is named the new University of Washington head coach. O'Malley, who succeeds Mike Ryan, played at Chico State and was assistant coach at UC Davis last season.

Without an absent Pelé and George Best, Team America is no threat to mighty Brazil in a Bicentennial Cup match in the Kingdome. Pelé patriotically declines to face his own country while Best bolted the squad and returned to train with the LA Aztecs. Consequently, the crowd is just 20,245. Brazil, featuring greats Zico, Rivelino and Marinho, wins, 2-0. Seattle's Mike England starts for Team America, a select team of NASL stars. Over 200 media members from Brazil are accredited and the match is televised to an estimated audience of 100 million.

The Seattle Reign completes its first two-goal comeback win and gets their first road victory in five months, 3-2 at Houston. Still, they miss the NWSL playoffs, finishing two points behind Western New York, which won at Boston the night before. The rally from 2-nil down begins with a half-hour remaining with Manon Melis's seventh goal. Kim Little ties it at 76' and Bev Yanez delivers the winner six minutes later.

Seattle Sounders FC and the Tacoma Rainiers announce that they have reached a Memorandum of Understanding, progressing to build a 5,000-seat, soccer-specific stadium on the footprint of Cheney Stadium in central Tacoma. The proposed site is set to be the future home of Sounders FC's rebranded USL franchise, which would be co-managed by the Rainiers.