Annelise Sittauer scores in the 10th minute and Emily Hurd puts the match away with two second-half goals, leading Crossfire Premier to a 3-0 victory over Real So Cal in the girls' U17 Far West Regional final at Lancaster, Ca. Crossfire, the only Washington team to win a regional title, goes 0-2-1 in group play at the USYSA Nationals in July.

Jack Goldingay, a relocated British Columbian, starts the Eastside's first youth program through the Bellevue Boy Club. By 1962, it grows to more than 300 players.

Pacific Lutheran become the state’s first women’s collegiate champions, taking the NAIA title, 2-0, over Hardin-Simmons, in windy Abilene, Texas. Laura Dutt and Sonya Brandt score in the second half for the Lutes – Brandt scoring her record 127th career goal and 32nd of the season. Gail Stenzel earns her 15th shutout and 42nd for her career. Brandt is named the tournament’s most outstanding player, and Colleen Hacker is voted coach of the year.

King County Executive Gary Locke signs a 30-year contract allowing the Lake Washington Youth Soccer Association to operate and upgrade soccer fields at 60 Acres Park in Redmond. The association had leased 16 soccer fields at the park for 10 years but wanted a longer-term agreement to go forward on plans to upgrade the fields. More than 11,000 young people ages 6 to 18 participated last year in soccer programs offered by LWYSA and Northshore Youth Soccer Association, which also uses the 60 Acres fields.

For the third time in her illustrious career, Michelle Akers is named U.S. Soccer Female Athlete of the Year, and Kasey Keller is chosen as male recipient for a second time. Akers received FIFA's Bronze Ball at the Women's World Cup last summer for finishing third in tournament MVP voting. Her physical play as a defensive midfielder helped the United States win the title. Keller, who plays for Rayo Vallecano in Spain, compiled a 1.09 goals-against average in five games for the U.S. National Team. He made a diving save on a penalty kick during a 1-0 victory over Argentina.

Denied four times in the past, Mercer Island finally grabs the prize by scoring twice in the final minutes for its first 3A boys' state title at Puyallup. In a rematch of the 2014 final, the Islanders never trail in their 3-1 victory over Lakeside, the holders since 2019 since two tournaments were nixed by the pandemic. All the goals come in the final 20 minutes, with Brady Gilroy staking MI ahead at 62'. The Lions' Jonathan Vonderlage ties it at 74', but Remy Frederick and Kaleb Rawson reply at 78' and 80+3'. MI had also struck late in the semi, scoring twice in the final five minutes vs. Monroe.