NWSL Team Highlight Series

Seattle Reign FC

Head Coach:

Laura Harvey

Stadium:

Starfire Stadium

Tukwila, Washington

Capacity: 4,500

Team History:

The Seattle Reign FC  will be inheriting a soccer-crazed town as their home field crowd thanks to the European-type appreciation for the game that has swept the city since the 1970s. The Seattle Sounders women, who have competed in the W-League since 2001, have proven that there is a solid base for women’s soccer, and have passed some of their alumni onto the Reign, including Hope Solo and Megan Rapinoe. Solo gladly returns to her home state, a Richland, Washington native and former University of Washington Husky. Competing in the Starfire Stadium, the Reign will share a home field with the Sounders, but promise to deliver the next level of women’s soccer.

Full USWNT Players:

Amy Rodriguez

(Will not be playing for the reign this season, taking a season off to have a baby.)

Megan Rapinoe

Hope Solo

2013 College Draft First Pick:

Pick #7 Overall:

Christine Nairn — Penn State University

2013 Supplemental Draft First Pick:

Pick #2 Overall:

Nikki Krzysik — University of Virginia