WPFC is proud to be a youth development partner of Sounders FC. We want to take a moment to congratulate the following WPFC players who have been selected to the Seattle Sounders FC USSF Development Academy for 2010-2011:

Congratulations to our girls ’96 Black who finished first in Division One of the PDL. The girls had a terrific spring session, and finished with 5 wins, 1 loss and 1 draw. The team play their opening game of the USYS Washington State Championships on the road this weekend as they face DOS 96 Red at Kent Meridian H.S.

We are delighted to announce the dates for the 18th Annual Rainier Challenge.  This year’s event will again be held over the second and third weekends of June.  The Girls Weekend is June 11-13, and the Boys Weekend is June 18-20. We have more information available in the Rainier Challenge section of the website.

Girls Weekend - Friday, June 11th to Sunday, June 13th

Boys Weekend - Friday, June 18th to Sunday, June 20th

• Registration fee is $550 (club discount available for 5 or more teams)
• All games played at the WPFC Soccer Complex in Puyallup, WA
• Please Click here to visit our Rainier Challenge page and register online.

(March 16, 2010) - The Executive Board of Washington Premier F.C is asking all artists to step forward and put their talent to work by designing our 2010 Rainier Challenge Logo.  This is your opportunity to be featured on all Literature, T-Shirts, Medals, Trophy’s, and Web correspondence.  Do you have any fantastic idea’s for this year’s logo?   Please submit your artistry to Trish Carter:  dtdscarter@comcast.net no later than 10 March 2010.  The board will review all entries, and choose a winner that will be announced on our Website during the month of March. We are anxiously awaiting our talented members’ submissions!  Good luck to all.

WPFC is proud to announce our 2010 Spring Junior Development Academy. All children between the ages of 7 and 10 are welcome to attend and have a great time learning the beautiful game.

OUR PROGRAM  

Wade Webber, our Youth Development Director, has specially crafted each training session to include lots of touches on the ball in a fun and creative environment. Each session is designed to help players with the on-going development of their individual technical skills, field awareness and creativity on and off the ball in a fun, player-centric environment. Wade will oversee all training sessions and will be joined by other members of WPFC’s coaching staff.  Get all of the details after the jump.

WPFC is holding tryouts in March for Boys & Girls U11-U12 teams. Tryouts will be held at the WPFC Field Complex on River Road.

Please click the name of a coach to read his bio and learn more about him.  Please visit our Tryout Information page for more details.

Age Groups	Dates	Time	Age Group Coaching Staff
Boys U-11	Fri., April 16 Sat., April 17	5:30 pm - 7:00 pm 9:00 am - 11:00 am	Joe Birklid Abdella Hussen
Boys U-12	Fri., April 16 Sat., April 17	7:00 pm - 8:30 pm 11:00 am - 1:00 pm	Greg Ion Todd Murray
Girls U-11	Fri., April 16 Sat., April 17	5:30 pm - 7:00 pm 9:00 am - 11:00 am	Bryan Yorke Steve Tollan
Girls U-12	Fri., April 16 Sat., April 17	7:00 pm - 8:30 pm 11:00 am - 1:00 pm	Scott Halasz

Over the past few weeks Seattle Soccer Examiner has been searching and researching to gather as many Washington State Youth Soccer Club crests as they could find. they ended up looking at well over fifty before narrowing the final ballot to the six choices below with the help local graphic designer Kristian Themstrup of SeattleLogoDesign.com to give his professional feedback as to why each design can stand on its own merits. Vote Now!

February 19, 2010 - We’re excited to announce that WPFC has been accepted into the Elite Clubs National League. The ECNL is a national youth soccer league founded in 2009 for U-15, U-16 and U-17 girls’ teams for the purpose of providing the highest level of competition and the best developmental environment for American female youth soccer players.  Congrats ladies... Go Premier!

Congratulations to the ladies of WPFC 91 Black who have committed to the following universities:

A big day for Washington state’s boys 1995 and 1996 Washington State/Sounders FC ODP teams. The 1995 team defeated Cal South 1-0 on a goal from EFC’s James Elliot in the first half. WPFC’s Connor Adkisson fended off a barrage of shots to keep the clean sheet! Also, the 96 team beat Cal South 3-2 to earn Washington state two Regional ODP Champions.

(February 1, 2010) - TopDrawerSoccer.com unveiled their initial 2011 National Top 100 Boys rankings and WPFC USSDA U-18 Midfielders Nicholas Palodichuk (#2), Jacob Bechtel (#48), along with USSDA U-16 Forward Sean Okoli (#52), and Midfielder Troy Peterson (#60) were selected.  TopDrawerSoccer.com stated that their national club soccer player rankings are based on input from our own scouts, staff and coaches at various levels. Both the numerical rankings and the star ratings are subject to update at least once per week.

(January 18, 2010) - Football is a funny game isn’t it? GU-13 Black more than held their own this weekend at the GRFC Winter Classic tournament. The girls believe it or not only gave up two goals the entire tourney and still fell out of the top spot after losing the in the finals 0-1 final V. ECFC F '96 Green .  Coach Fischbach we are so proud of your team’s efforts!

(January 25, 2010) - TopDrawerSoccer.com unveiled their initial 2010 National Top 100 Boys rankings and WPFC USSDA U-18 forward Darwin Jones was selected #73.  TopDrawerSoccer.com stated that their national club soccer player rankings are based on input from our own scouts, staff and coaches at various levels. Both the numerical rankings and the star ratings are subject to update at least once per week.