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Newport Huskies: Joy of Six
March 1, 1975

Eastside YSA’s U17 Newport Huskies win their sixth straight state championship convincingly, 9-2, over Seattle’s Hillwood Kickers, at Memorial Stadium. Steve Moore nets a hat trick and Ron Dorn adds two goals for Fred Conner’s squad.

Seattle United '00s Win Again
February 21, 2016

Seattle United boys 00 Copa win their third straight Washington State Youth Championship, this time at the U15 level, beating Eastside FC 00 Red, 1-0, at Starfire.

Indoor Comes to Town
November 11, 1980

A crowd of 12,355 watches the first indoor game played in Puget Sound. It's a preseason friendly in the Kingdome, a jamboree with Portland and San Jose. A radio station gives away 7,700 of the tickets. Admission $4 and $2 for kids. It costs $200,000 to make the Dome suitable, including the turf field encircled by fiberglass walls and plexiglass.

Keller, Leicester Take League Cup
April 16, 1997

Kasey Keller keeps a clean sheet as Leicester City claim their first cup in 33 years, defeating Middlesbrough, 1-0, in extra time of League Cup final replay at Hillsborough. Keller, in his first season with the Foxes, denies Boro’s Emerson late on to preserve result. The two sides initially played to a 1-1 draw at Wembley 10 days earlier, with Leicester's Emile Heskey forcing the replay by scoring in 118th minute.

NU Eagles Win 8th in a Row
October 23, 2014

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.

IOC Adds Women's Soccer for 1996
September 18, 1993

Two years of pressure from proponents in the U.S. and around the world result in the International Olympic Committee adding women's soccer to the Sumer Games, beginning in 1996 at Atlanta. The IOC votes in Monte Carlo to start with an 8-team tournament.

State league play between the Washington Huskies and Hungarians. (Courtesy UW Library digital collection)
1962
(Courtesy Seattle Times archives)
1973
1971
Michelle Akers performs the ceremonial first kick for the WUSA inaugural match as referee Sandra Hunt looks on. (Courtesy WUSA)
2001
Whitman women defend a corner kick. (Courtesy Whitman archives)
1979
Seattle Pacific launches a shot on goal. (Courtesy Seattle Pacific Falcon archives)
1969
Sound FC 04 won the state U16 boys championship. (Courtesy Washington Youth Soccer)
2020
Referee Sandra Hunt and her crew of Mohammed Zarrabi-Kashani, Mac Pinski and Kevin Boisen worked the inaugural Sounders match in Seahawks Stadium. (Courtesy Sandra Hunt)
2002
1961
Everett's Chris Henderson began his MLS career with Colorado (Courtesy Major League Soccer)
1996