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Hanson First Women's Coach to Reach 300
November 1, 2015

Randy Hanson becomes the state's first collegiate women's coach to achieve 300 wins at a local school with Puget Sound's 3-0 victory over Whitman. Hanson's 16th-ranked Loggers get two goals and an assist from Amalia Acorda-Fey.

Kitsap Wins Northwest Division
July 11, 2014

Kitsap Pumas get a hat trick from Miguel Gonzalez to clinch the PDL Northwest Division for the first time in three seasons with a 3-1 win over Washington Crossfire in Redmond. Kitsap (9-1-4) finishes four points in front of Vancouver and Victoria.

Nixon Smashes Saints Goal Mark
October 25, 2008

Xan Nixon bursts on the scene with a four-goal performance in 5-0 win for Saint Martin's over Northwest Nazarene in Olympia. Nixon becomes the first Saints player to score a hat trick, accumulating three goals in the second half alone. All of his team-leading eight goals come during a seven-game stretch during the second half of the season.

Yedlin Sparks U.S. in World Cup Qualifying
September 8, 2021

DeAndre Yedlin sparks what proves to be the game-winning goal in the U.S. win at Honduras in World Cup qualifying. Two minutes after coming in, Yedlin lifts a ball from the right to Ricardo Pepi, whose 10-yard header put the Americans ahead, 2-1, in the 75th minute and on their way to a 4-1 victory. Yedlin plays in seven of the eight qualifiers through December. During a 2-1 home win over Mexico on Nov. 12 he reaches 70 caps.

White Scores Again, Reign Tops Thorns
August 7, 2019

Rosie White scores in her second straight start and Reign FC absorbs Portland pressure without allowing a goal to win, 1-0, before 5,865 at Cheney Stadium. It's the first match back for Allie Long and Jodie Taylor since their World Cup duties were completed. In the 55th minute, Ifeoma Onumonu makes a strong run into the box and then sends a cross far post that was headed back before landing at the feet of White. She gets just enough of a touch to roll the ball past Thorns keeper Adrianna Franch. White, the New Zealand National Team forward signed three weeks earlier, also scored the winner at Houston August 2.

Bremerton's Olympic Center Opens
November 17, 2001

Olympic Soccer & Sports Center opens in Bremerton's Pendergast Park. The $900,000 center features two competitive indoor fields, plus a mezzanine area and observation deck in the 25,000-square-foot building. Construction began in June.

Scenes from a 1990 Gonzaga home men's match. (Courtesy Gonzaga archives)
1990
George P.
1950
Felix Chenkam of Sounders 2, who made Cheney Stadium their home in 2018. (Courtesy Sounders FC)
2018
Seattle's Otey Cannon becomes the first African American to score a goal in the NASL. (Frank MacDonald Collection)
1974
1972
Advertisement promoting the West Ham-Kilmarnock contest, the first match to be played on artificial turf. (Courtesy Seattle Times)
1969
Laura Harvey completely turns around the Reign in their second season, earning NWSL Coach of the Year. (Jane Gersovich photo)
2014
(Frank MacDonald Collection)
1985
(Courtesy Seattle Times archives)
1984
Blaise Nkufo scores the first goal of his historic first Sounders hat trick in 4-0 win at Columbus. (Courtesy Sounders FC)
2010