HAPPENING NOW: West Seattle Soccer Club’s spring season starts

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(WSB photos by Patrick Sand)
The final round of games for the first day of the West Seattle Soccer Club‘s spring season is under way, on fields all over West Seattle. We stopped by one of the fields at Roxhill, while players in the youngest division – U-6 – were getting in gear.

With more than 1,400 players and 200 coaches signed up, WSSC has teamed with its counterpart to the south, Highline, for this year’s spring Champions League, with jerseys/team names inspired by the UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) Champions League.

Along with Roxhill, fields where today’s 92 scheduled games were played included Alki, EC Hughes, Fairmount, Highland Park, Madison, Riverview, and Walt Hundley, plus several fields on Highline’s home turf south of West Seattle. Next Sunday’s schedule is online here; games are scheduled every Sunday afternoon through June 7th, with the exception of May 24th, since that’s Memorial Day weekend.

P.S. Got a great game pic from today? We’d be happy to add it – editor@westseattleblog.com – thanks!

Alki Resident April 12, 2015 (6:53 pm)

Saw quite a few players and parents at Blue Moon Burgers on Alki for a post game meal.

William Fry April 12, 2015 (7:28 pm)

What a brilliant day to kick-off our 2015 HSA Champions League Season!! Thank you WSB for coming out to watch some of the 1,400 kids play today… and for sharing your fantastic pictures!!

Argonautter April 12, 2015 (8:22 pm)

Just another reason to love West Seattle! WSSC is an incredibly well-run community organization: kids play, parents coach, neighbors referee. This is good stuff.

Angela Zinn April 13, 2015 (12:33 am)

What a fun and exciting day! Its my first time Coaching and having the Master Coaches teaching skills is fabulous and then to see some of my team pictured, including my little guy, was icing on the cake! Thanks for sharing these pics 😃

WSB April 13, 2015 (1:30 am)

Congrats on becoming a coach! – Tracy

BMC April 13, 2015 (10:42 am)

Very cute! What a great organization. Just curious – does anyone know why WSSC and Highline combined?

Tim McMonigle April 13, 2015 (11:11 am)

Hi BMC. Both the West Seattle Soccer Club and Highline Soccer Club are part of the Highline Soccer Association, so we have always been partners.

We combine our schedules to bring more teams together in the fall for U8-U11, so it made sense to do the same thing for our Champion’s League season in the spring. It helps us be more efficient in field scheduling, game scheduling and uniform and equipment purchasing.

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