| Club: | Seattle Reign FC |
| Season: | 2013 |
| Stadium: | Starfire Sports |
| Ownertitle: | Owners |
| Owner: | Bill and Teresa Predmore |
| Chrtitle: | General manager |
| Chairman: | Laura Harvey |
| Mgrtitle: | Head coach |
| Manager: | Laura Harvey |
| League: | National Women's Soccer League |
| League Result: | Overall: 7th |
| League Topscorer: | Megan Rapinoe (5 goals) |
| Highest Attendance: | 3,855 vs Washington Spirit (July 14, 2013) |
| Lowest Attendance: | 1,011 vs Washington Spirit (May 16, 2013) |
| Average Attendance: | 2,360 |
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| Nextseason: | 2014 |
The 2013 Seattle Reign FC season was the club's first season in the National Women's Soccer League, the top division of women's soccer in the United States.
In November 2012, it was confirmed that a Seattle-based women's professional soccer team owned by Bill Predmore (founder and president of Seattle-based digital marketing agency, POP) had been accepted into a new women's professional soccer league, later named National Women's Soccer League.[1] [2] Former general manager of the Seattle Sounders Women and Seattle Sounders FC Director of Youth Programs,[3] Amy Carnell, was named general manager.
On December 21, 2012, the team announced Laura Harvey as their first head coach. Harvey was head coach of Arsenal L.F.C. from 2010–2012 after serving as an assistant for two years, assisted and then coached Birmingham City L.F.C. from 2002–2008, and served as an assistant coach for England's U-17, U-19 and U-23 women's national teams from 2005–2011.[4]
On January 11, 2013, as part of the NWSL Player Allocation, Kaylyn Kyle (CAN), Teresa Noyola (MEX), Megan Rapinoe (USA), Amy Rodriguez(USA), Jenny Ruiz (MEX), Hope Solo (USA), and Emily Zurrer (CAN) were named to the Seattle team.[5] [6] [7] On January 18, the Reign selected Christine Nairn, Mallory Schaffer, Kristen Meier, and Haley Kopmeyer at the 2013 NWSL College Draft.[8] [9] On February 4, 2013, it was announced that the team had signed four free agents: Kate Deines, Jessica Fishlock, Tiffany Cameron, and Lindsay Taylor.[10] During the February 7, 2013 NWSL Supplemental Draft, the team selected Nikki Krzysik, Lauren Barnes, Laura Heyboer, Liz Bogus, Michelle Betos and Kaley Fountain.[11]
Leading into the preseason, it was learned that the Reign would be without all of their U.S. national team allocated players for almost half of the season. National team forward, Amy Rodriguez, announced she was pregnant with her first child and would not be playing during the inaugural season.[12] U.S. national team goalkeeper, Hope Solo, would be away for the first part of the season after recovering from wrist surgery and Megan Rapinoe had signed with French side, Olympique Lyonnais, from January to June and would miss at least nine games.[13] [14]
After traveling to Japan in the preseason to play matches against defending L. League champion INAC Kobe Leonessa, Fukuoka J. Anclas, and Nojima Stella Kanagawa,[15] the Reign faced their first regular season match against the Chicago Red Stars at Benedictine University, in which Seattle's first college draft pick, Christine Nairn, scored the Reign's first goal of the season via a header off an assist from Liz Bogus.[16] The Red Stars later tied the game 1–1, but the point that Seattle earned in the game would be its only for the next nine games. Without the U.S. national team players or a veteran goalscorer up front, the team struggled to win games. Although the losses were for the most part consistently low-scoring games, it was apparent that the Reign was missing some final ingredients for success.
In June 2013, head coach Laura Harvey began making some trades and signing new players. Forward and Canadian international, Tiffany Cameron was waived, later to be picked up by FC Kansas City and former U.S. national team defender, Stephanie Cox was added to the roster.[17] Mexican allocated player and former Stanford Cardinal standout, Teresa Noyola, was traded to FC Kansas City for Renae Cuellar, and Noyola's fellow former Stanford Cardinal goal-scorer, Lindsay Taylor was traded to the Washington Spirit. After a brief stint on the team by Tobagonian international, Kennya Cordner who was later waived and replaced by Australian national team co-captain, Emily van Egmond due to the league's restriction on only having two international players on a team (in addition to allocated players), and the return of U.S. national team players, Solo and Rapinoe, the Reign began to turn the season around with a 1–1 tie against the Western New York Flash. The game would be the first of a six-game undefeated streak for the Reign with two ties and four wins.[18] After losing to regional rival, Portland Thorns FC, 2–1 in the season finale in front of a sold-out crowd of 3,855, the Reign ended the 2013 NWSL season seventh in the league with a 5–14–3 record.[19]
Players with one goal or more included only.
| Player | width=80 | Total | width=80 | NWSL | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | MF | Megan Rapinoe | 5 | 5 | ||
| 2 | MF | Jessica Fishlock | 4 | 4 | |||
| 3 | | FW | Jessica McDonald | 3 | 3 | ||
| 3 | | MF | Christine Nairn | 3 | 3 | ||
| 3 |  | DF | Kaylyn Kyle | 3 | 3 | ||
| 4 | | FW | Liz Bogus | 1 | 1 | ||
| 4 |  | MF | Teresa Noyola | 1 | 1 | ||
| 4 | | FW | Lindsay Taylor | 1 | 1 | ||
| 4 | | MF | Keelin Winters | 1 | 1 | ||
Players with one assist or more included only.
| Player | width=80 | Total | width=80 | NWSL | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | MF | Christine Nairn | 5 | 5 | ||
| 2 | | FW | Liz Bogus | 2 | 2 | ||
| 2 | | DF | Elli Reed | 2 | 2 | ||
| 3 | | FW | Kristina Larsen | 1 | 1 | ||
| 3 | | FW | Jessica McDonald | 1 | 1 | ||
| 3 | | MF | Teresa Noyola | 1 | 1 | ||
| 3 | | MF | Keelin Winters | 1 | 1 | ||
Players with 1 card or more included only.
| Player | Total | NWSL | ||||||
| 23 | | FW | Renae Cuellar | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 25 | | DF | Kiersten Dallstream | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 7 | MF | Jessica Fishlock | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| 10 | | MF | Kaylyn Kyle | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| 19 | | MF | Christine Nairn | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 14 | | FW | Kristina Larsen | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 19 | | MF | Megan Rapinoe | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 16 | | MF | Elli Reed | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 13 | | DF | Jenny Ruiz | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 1 | | GK | Hope Solo | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 1 |  | MF | Emily van Egmond | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 1 | | MF | Keelin Winters | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2 | | DF | Emily Zurrer | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Last updated: August 20, 2013
| Player | National Women's Soccer League | ||||||
| width=60 | width=60 | width=60 | width=60 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | | Michelle Betos | 630 | 14 | 2 | 34 | |
| 20 | | Haley Kopmeyer | 90 | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
| 1 | | Hope Solo | 1260 | 19 | 1.357 | 81 |
| Date | Player | Pos | Previous Club | Notes | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1, 2013 | MF | Traded for first round pick in the 2014 College Draft and future considerations | [20] | |||
| June 19, 2013 | DF | – | Signed mid-season | [21] | ||
| June 28, 2013 | FW | Acquired via waivers | [22] | |||
| July 1, 2013 | FW | Traded for Teresa Noyola, rights for unsigned player Nikki Krzysik, and second round 2014 NWSL college draft pick | [23] | |||
| July 12, 2013 | MF | Signed; Kennya Cordner waived due to international player restrictions in league | [24] |
| Date | Player | Pos | Destination Club | Notes | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 25, 2013 | FW | Waived, later picked up by Kansas City | [25] | |||
| June 28, 2013 | GK | – | ||||
| July 1, 2013 | MF | |||||
| July 1, 2013 | FW | Traded to Washington for conditional fourth round pick in exchange for the Spirit’s second round pick. | ||||
| July 12, 2013 | FW | Kennya Cordner waived due to international player restrictions in league when Emily van Egmond signed. |
| Week | Player | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Jessica Fishlock | [26] |
| 16 | Megan Rapinoe | [27] |
| Date | Player | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 7, 2013 | Christine Nairn | [28] | |
| July 14, 2013 | Jessica McDonald | [29] | |
| July 25, 2013 | Kaylyn Kyle | [30] | |
| August 16, 2013 | Megan Rapinoe | [31] |