Three days after becoming the first player to mark 250 NWSL career appearances, Lauren Barnes says she will retire following the Reign's final 2025 game. Barnes, 36, has been a defensive stalwart for Seattle since its inaugural season of 2013.

Major League Soccer announces seven of the 12 cities that will receive teams to begin play in spring of 1995, but Seattle is not among them. MLS Chairman Alan Rothenberg says the city will remain under consideration in the coming months for one of the final five spots. The areas selected are: New Jersey, New York/Long Island, Boston, San Jose, Los Angeles, Columbus and Washington, D.C.

After a humbling start to its existence, Walla Walla University achieves its first varsity men's victory, 2-1 over Multnomah at Portland. The Wolves lost their first seven outings by a combined 40-1, beginning Sept. 7 in Everett with a 1-0 defeat to Trinity Lutheran.

Resurgent Washington posts its fifth consecutive shutout with a 1-0 victory over Seattle Pacific at Husky Soccer Field. Erik Penner volleys in John Cowmey's lofted free kick in the 19th minute for the Huskies' first win over SPU since 1989. Freshman Bill May needs only one save. UW is 7-1-1 over its last nine matches. Three of the 3rd-ranked Falcons' (11-4-3) four losses are to Div. I programs.

The Hungarians dethrone four-time Five-a-Side tournament champion Vancouver O’Keefe’s, 1-0, on Les Mueller’s strike with 30 seconds to go in the final at West Seattle. Thirty-two teams from Washington, Oregon and B.C. started the day, with 19 being Canadian. A Bellevue teams featuring four juniors shocks the senior Vikings, 4-0, in the first round but bows out to the Hungarians at the quarterfinal stage.

Betty Ellis, a grandmother and first female to officiate a U.S. professional game in 1980, coaches Tahoma girls to state AA title, 2-0 over Edmonds after upsetting undefeated Mountlake Terrace, 5-1, in the semifinal. Stephanie Johnson scores both Bears goals in the final.