Issaquah Soccer Club teams travel to London
June 26, 2012
Kristof Hefty (left), of the Issaquah Soccer Club Gunners U11 team, faces off in a match against a member of Arsenal Academy during the local team’s recent tour in London. By Zheng Li
Four Issaquah Soccer Club teams traveled to London recently for a 10-day soccer tour to learn how the English play the game.
Jimmy Ball, the club’s director of football and coach of four Issaquah premier teams, used to play and coach in England. He said his connections, along with a company called XLTravel that organized airfare, hotel and transportation and coordinated with the academies, allowed the young players to experience English soccer at its best.
“Just watching those premier league games was a great experience for them,” Ball said. “To see live matches — pros playing, the speed of their play and … how they kept the ball so well — was one thing that I was hoping they would learn, and they did.”]
Issaquah Soccer Club debuts Women’s Premier Soccer League teams
June 12, 2012
The Issaquah Soccer Club is promoting two new Women’s Premier Soccer League teams.
One team is playing while the other is provisional but still practices with the club.
The club is off to a promising start of the season, winning two of its first games.
The team premiered with a home game win May 25, 3-0, against Eugene Metro.
The team enjoyed its latest victory June 1 against the Portland Rain, 2-0, at Skyline High School.
Issaquah youth kicks rare form of epilepsy
January 17, 2012
At its worst, epilepsy with myoclonic absences caused 1,000 seizures a day
Gabe Uribe, 10, a proficient soccer player, shows his prowess by kicking the ball held by his sister Ava, 7, and his mother Cindy. By Greg Farrar
Cindy Uribe can remember when her 10-year-old son was just 16 months old, turning heads on the soccer pitch.
“We’d gone to the Seattle University’s soccer field for a pickup game. Gabe had an infant’s soccer ball and was dribbling it up and down the sideline,” she recalled. “The adults were amazed by Gabe showing such control at such a young age.”
However, Gabe is just now regaining those promising soccer skills. At age 3, something happened. A bout with a rare form of epilepsy sidetracked all of his motor skills.
Youth soccer club holds toy collection at Issaquah High School
December 8, 2011
NEW — 12:20 p.m. Dec. 8, 2011
The Issaquah Soccer Club is holding a toy drive to benefit Seattle Children’s.
For the last day of the drive, the group will collect new, unwrapped toys from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday at Issaquah High School, 700 Second Ave. S.E.
The drive was the brainchild of two club players, Jaden Humbyrd and Brooke Mayes. Both are 8 years old and play for the ISC Gunners.
“The girls are very excited about giving the toys to the kids and hope for a great last day of donations,” said Jaden’s mother, Sherida Humbyrd.
Pumas win District II championship
November 29, 2011
The Pumas, the Issaquah Soccer Club’s U-12 girls recreational team, defeated the Lake Washington-Kirkland Mambas, 1-0, Nov. 20 to win the District II State Recreational Cup Championship.
Forward Emily Klosterman scored the goal with 9:45 left in the first period. She was assisted by Madison Schroeder.
During the six-week, four-game tournament, the Pumas went 4-0 and outscored opponents 8-1.
The Pumas play in the District IV Championship on Dec. 3.
Pumas win District II championship
November 22, 2011
The Pumas, the Issaquah Soccer Club’s U-12 girls recreational team, defeated the Lake Washington-Kirkland Mambas, 1-0, Nov. 20 to win the District II State Recreational Cup Championship.
Forward Emily Klosterman scored the goal with 9:45 left in the first period. She was assisted by Madison Schroeder.
During the six-week, four-game tournament, the Pumas went 4-0 and outscored opponents 8-1.
The Pumas play in the District IV Championship on Dec. 3.
Issaquah Soccer Club raises $3,500 for Seattle Children’s
November 21, 2011
NEW — 6 a.m. Nov. 21, 2011
Issaquah Soccer Club members donated $3,500 to Seattle Children’s to honor a player treated at the hospital and to help other children.
Soon after Gabriel Uribe turned 3, doctors diagnosed him with a severe form of epilepsy. Gabriel, barely able to walk or talk, Gabriel suffered more than 1,000 epileptic seizures per day during the worst period. Doctors told his parents he had only a 50 percent chance of surviving to adulthood, until he started treatment at Seattle Children’s.
Nowadays, Gabriel is a healthy 10-year-old and a member of the Issaquah Soccer Club’s Gunners premier squad.
Gabriel accompanied Issaquah Soccer Club President and Bret Knutson and Jimmy Ball, director of coaching, to present the $3,500 check to Seattle Children’s.
City smoothes once-bumpy Central Park entrance
November 1, 2011
The cratered parking lot at Central Park’s popular artificial turf fields is gone, replaced by a special — and smoother — pavement to allow rainwater to percolate through the lot and into the ground.
Crews completed the 163-stall parking lot in late summer, and city officials gathered to open the space Sept. 26.
The parking lot upgrade is the latest addition to the area, called Pad 3. The city installed artificial turf, using a donation from the Issaquah Soccer Club and a state grant, and lights, using dollars left over from the turf installation, at the site in earlier phases.
Lakeside Recovery baseball goes 1-4 in tourney
June 28, 2011
The Lakeside Recovery Senior American Legion baseball team went 1-4 at the Palouse Summer Series last week.
The tournament was held at the home baseball fields of Washington State University and Lewis-Clark State University.
Lakeside’s lone victory came June 23 when the club played two games. Earlier in the day, Lakeside lost to the Rips Brewers, 11-6, in Lewiston, and then hustled to Pullman where the club defeated the Seattle Stars Gold team, 9-4.
In the contest with the Seattle Stars Gold, Newport’s Dan Altchech had four hits and Issaquah’s Brandon Mahovlich had two hits.
In the game with the Rips Brewers, Mahovlich had four hits, one a home run, and drove in three runs. Skyline’s Jimmy Sinatro had three hits.
Lakeside opened the tournament June 22 with a 3-2 loss to the Puget Sound Roxx. Skyline graduate Connor Lawhead pitched well for Lakeside, not allowing an earned run in six innings.
On June 24, Lakeside lost a slugfest to the Lewis-Clark Twins, 9-8. Altchech, Sinatro and Newport’s Kyle Goemmer each had two hits.
Lakeside played its final game June 25, falling to Taylor Baseball, 7-3. Goemmer had two hits to lead Lakeside.
Issaquah tragedies, triumphs define a tumultuous year
December 28, 2010
Traffic lines up on state Route 900 at Northwest Talus Drive in February. State Department of Transportation crews completed the long-running project in 2010. By Greg Farrar
The economy lurched from the recession, population growth all but stalled and Issaquah — after cutbacks and setbacks in 2009 — defied the odds to reach major milestones throughout 2010.
Momentum returned in 2010 after a year spent in a holding pattern. Set against the backdrop of a fragile recovery, leaders cut the ribbon on businesses and roads, laid the foundation for preservation and construction, and marked tragedies and successes. Read more
