It was fitting that a slight breeze was felt humming through the downtown Spokane core on Sunday afternoon as previously announced USL Spokane was officially introduced as Spokane Zephyr FC.
Last season all three programs – Whitworth, Community Colleges of Spokane and North Idaho College – featured new head coaches, riding the recruiting from previous regimes.
Sometimes high school soccer players will have a physical jump from one year to the next, or a mental shift that allows them to play with more creative freedom.
Deer Park striker Livvy Moore scored her 100th career goal in October, midway through the Stags’ historic campaign. She scored 13 more down the stretch as her senior season wrapped up eight games later with a State 1A girls soccer title.
The Spokane Shock once took the Lilac City by storm, lost its name and its franchise before and then came roaring back in 2019 behind a bombastic new owner who promised to restore the franchise to its championship glory.
The Spokane Shock will lose its home arena at 5 p.m. Wednesday unless team owner Sam Adams secures financial backing for a contract he previously signed with the Spokane Public Facilities District.
With mud splattering legs and caking spikes to the point of being unrecognizable, the Valley Flash runners traversed the sloppy landscape in the USA Track and Field National Junior Olympic Cross County Championships in Paris, Kentucky, on Dec. 11.
