Photo by Kurt Howard
Seattle Mariners pitcher Felix Hernandez readies for a throw.
By Tim Clinton
Past meets present and future both on the pages of the new seattlesportsstories.com website.
Historical reviews have been put together on area professional teams and on the teams and programs at the University of Washington, Washington State University, Seattle University and Seattle Pacific.
Pages are also included on Olympians from Washington and on area individuals who have gone on to compete elsewhere.
Keeping you up to date on events of the near future and recent results are the Weekend Watch and Weekday Watch pages.
Features on personalities past and present are provided as we can get them.
Seattle has a long and storied sports history, dating back to the Stanley Cup winning Seattle Metropolitans hockey team in 1917. The University of Washington Huskies and the Washington State University Cougars have seemingly always been here, and the Pacific Coast League's Seattle Rainiers ruled the roost along with the hydroplanes until the arrival of basketball's Seattle SuperSonics in 1967 and the one year wonder Seattle Pilots of Major League Baseball in 1969.
Soccer showed up first with the Seattle Sounders in 1974 and again in 2009.
The National Football League arrived with the Seattle Seahawks in 1976 and Major League Baseball returned with the Seattle Mariners in 1977. Hockey came back with the Seattle Kraken in 2021, and women's professional sports arrived with the basketball Seattle Storm in 2000 and soccer's Seattle Reign in 2012.
Also springing up were the Seattle Seawolves of Major League Rugby in 2017 and indoor soccer's Tacoma Stars in 1983 and 2003.
Seattle is also home to Seattle University and Seattle Pacific University, and minor league franchises are nearby in the Tacoma Rainiers and Everett Aquasox of baseball and hockey's Seattle Thunderbirds and Everett Silvertips.
We're still waiting for the return of the Sonics.
So please enjoy the ride reading Seattle Sports Stories.
Personality features on the Seattle Sports Stories website include Seattle Storm women's basketball broadcaster Dick Fain and University of Washington baseball first baseman and 2025 leading hitter Casen Taggart.
Also included is a story on the naming of Anna Temple as the new University of Washington women's golf head coach.
Now added is a feature about Seattle Mariners color commentator and analyst Angie Mentink and her husband Jarrett and sons Jaxen and Chase, and one on former NFL scout, Federal Way High School head coach and USFL and NFL player Tom McConnaughey.
Ronan Leeming of the Sounders FC Academy has been named as an All-Star and a story has now been included on him.
Also listed on this page are links to team history stories.
For those who enjoy the great outdoors or love drives to scenic places, readers can find our sister website at northwestvistas.com for features and photos on locations to go to in the Pacific Northwest.
To see what's going on in Federal Way sports with schedules and recent results there is the federalwaysports.blogspot.com site. It emphasizes the action at Decatur, Federal Way, Thomas Jefferson and Todd Beamer high schools and the Federal Way National, Steel Lake and Soundview All-Star Little League teams in the summer.
Or if you want to follow the high school, Little League and other teams and athletes of Des Moines, Highline, White Center, West Seattle, Ballard, SeaTac and Tukwila, find the sports section of the westsideseattle.com site for the Robinson Newspapers that our publisher works for as sports editor.
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