Washington draws, 1-1, with British Columbia at Lower Woodland, completing a seven-game season (3-2-2) exclusively versus collegiate opposition from Canada (UBC, Victoria and Royal Roads) and Oregon (Portland State).

Following an 18-month study, Seattle University's Board of Trustees votes to change affiliation from NAIA to NCAA Division III with the hope of joining nine other Pacific Northwest private schools in a non-scholarship athletic conference by 2000. The Chieftains stop awarding new athletic scholarships beginning with the 1996-97 school year. The vote translates into a savings of at least $350,000 for Seattle U, which plans to channel the funds into its general aid fund and possibly into the creation of at least two new varsity sports within four years to meet NCIC membership requirements.

Seattle Reign’s Lynn Biyendolo scores twice in her 33-minute shift off the bench in a 4-0 U.S. win over Jamaica in St. Louis. Biyendolo volleys home just three minutes after entering the match to make it 3-nil. She adds her second and 24th of her international career at 88’.

Washington's Supreme Court rules that Washington State University has unconstitutionally discriminated against women's athletic programs. The 8-1 decision affirms most of a Whitman County Superior Court decision in January 1983. Justice James Dolliver, writing for the Supreme Court majority, says football should be allowed only a partial exemption. Effectively, it leads to the addition of additional varsity women's programs and support, including increased scholarship and the formation of varsity soccer at WSU, Washington and Eastern Washington. Women athletes and coaches at Washington State filed a class action lawsuit in 1983.

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.

Predrag Radosavljević , a 22-year-old rookie better known as Preki, scores in his Tacoma Stars debut, a season-opening 7-5 loss at Minnesota. Preki had been discovered by coach Bob McNab during a summer trip to Yugoslavia. At a preseason tournament in Pittsburgh, Preki impressed, scoring three goals and three assists to earn MVP honors. He goes on to score 332 MISL goals.