After giving up two goals in the first six minutes, No. 2-ranked Seattle Prep rallies for a 3-2 victory over No. 3 Liberty of Issaquah to capture a second straight 3A state girls championship. The Panthers (20-0-2), in the title game for the fifth time in six years, had allowed only eight goals all season and never more than one in any match. Kaylynn Huebner heads in the game-winner five minutes before halftime.

Title IX’s upcoming 50th anniversary is celebrated with Washington State Legends of Soccer curating and hosting a 10-panel display at Lumen Field during a Sounders match. In addition, 10 of our state’s early women’s soccer icons led the pregame Scarves Up! OL Reign and Washington Youth Soccer also marked the anniversary later in the year.

Tatyana Reveles puts Northwest University up early and Kelsey Greene scores and assists during a spree of four second-half goals in a 5-0 romp over Warner Pacific in Kirkland. It's the Eagles eighth straight Cascade Conference win, and a draw with Concordia two days later clinches the CCC regular season title. Concordia avenges the outcome in the postseason final, 1-0, on Nov. 15, taking the automatic NAIA berth.

Jeff Durgan holds Chicago's Karl-Heinz Granitza scoreless, but his New York Cosmos lose their grip on the NASL championship. The Sting prevail in a shootout following a scoreless draw in Toronto. Granitza came into the game having scored 12 times in the last 12 games. Durgan, 20, marks Granitza tightly, allowing only three harmless shots.

With an MLS-record five teenagers starting, the Sounders manage to overcome the absence of 10 players to win, 1-0, at Austin. Fifteen-year-old Obed Vargas becomes the third-youngest player to ever appear in a league match. Joining Vargas are fellow teens Reed Baker-Whiting (16), Ethan Dobbelaere (18), Danny Leyva (18) and Josh Atencio (19). Also, Sam Adeniran gets his first MLS start while on loan from Tacoma. Altogether, the lineup average age is 21.4 After coming off the bench, Raul Ruidiaz scores a stunning winner from 40 yards.

Chris Henderson scores his first international goal for the United States in a 4-1 exhibition win at Liechtenstein. Henderson’s goal comes following a through ball from Neil Covone that Henderson tucks away in the 75th minute and Kasey Keller pockets the win. Three days later, Keller starts Henderson is a sub in the final warm-up match, a 2-1 loss to Switzerland.