Chance Fry
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| Chance Fry | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Chance Fry | |
| Date of birth | May 29, 1964 | |
| Place of birth | Bellevue, Washington, United States | |
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | |
| Playing position | Forward | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Retired | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1983 1984 1984-1985 1986 1986-1987 1987-1990 1991 1994-1997 |
Seattle Sounders Tulsa Roughnecks New York Cosmos (indoor) San Jose Earthquakes Fort Wayne Flames (indoor) Seattle Storm San Francisco Bay Blackhawks Seattle Sounders |
18 (4) 22 (8) 21 (3) 14 (8) 18 (7) 17 (5) ? (26) |
| National team2 | ||
| 1984 | United States | 5 (0) |
| Teams managed | ||
| 1999 2002- |
Bellevue Community College Bellevue Community College |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Chance Fry (born May 29, 1964 in Bellevue, Washington) is a retired U.S. soccer forward who began his career straight out of high school with the Seattle Sounders of the North American Soccer League. With the collapse of the NASL, he moved to indoor soccer as well as U.S. minor leagues. Since retiring from playing, Fry has become a college soccer coach. He also earned five caps with the U.S. national team in 1984.
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[edit] Youth
Chance Fry, a native of Bellevue, Washington, had a long career as a U.S. soccer player. Fry attended and played boys soccer at Sammamish High School in Bellevue where he was a Parade Magazine High School All American and All Conference his senior year.
[edit] NASL
The Seattle Sounders of the North American Soccer League drafted Fry out of high school as the #1 pick in the 1982 draft. He played for the Sounders during their last year in existence, 1983, scoring 4 goals and assisting on 3 more. Because he was from the local area, he lived with his parents while playing for the Sounders.
After the Sounders folded, Fry moved to the Tulsa Roughnecks for the 1984 season. He continued to mature as a player, seeing time in 22 games, scoring 8 goals and assisting on 4 more. At the end of the season, the Roughnecks and the NASL folded.
[edit] Indoor soccer
Fry moved to his third team in three season, playing for the New York Cosmos in the 1984-1985 Major Indoor Soccer League campaign. The Cosmos folded 33 games into the 48 game season. Fry played 21 games, but scored only 3 goals. In the 1986-1987 season he was with the expansion Fort Wayne Flames of the American Indoor Soccer Association (AISA). Some time later he played with the Milwaukee Wave, also of the AISA.
[edit] WSA/APSL
In 1986, Fry was with the San Jose Earthquakes in the Western Soccer Alliance (WSA). While the Earthquakes finished sixth out of seven teams, Fry had an excellent year, scoring 8 goals (second in the league).
In 1987, Fry moved to the Seattle Storm. This year he finally experienced some team success as the Storm finished second in the league, falling to the Earthquakes in the wild card game. In 1988, Fry remained with the Storm, helping it to the WSA championship, scoring an unassisted goal in Seattle's 5-0 destruction of the Earthquakes. Fry ended the season 8th on the points list with 3 goals and 3 assists. In 1989, Fry continued to produce for the Storm, finishing fifth in the league's points chart with 20 off 8 goals and 4 assists. In 1990, the Western Soccer League merged with the American Soccer League to form the American Professional Soccer League. Fry dominated the new league, scoring a league high 17 goals, assisting on 5 more and topping the APSL points list with 39. The team, however, did not do as well. It finished with a 10-10 record and folded at the end of the season.
Fry remained in the APSL, but moved to the San Francisco Bay Blackhawks for the 1991 season. While Fry did not produce as many points for the Blackhawks as he did for the Storm, (6 goals, 2 assists and 14 points), the team still won the 1991 APSL championship.
In 1994, Fry returned to the second version of the Seattle Sounders of the APSL. That year, he scored 11 goals in 18 games and was selected as a 1st Team All Star. He would play with the team through the 1997 season.
[edit] Coaching
In 1999, Fry established the Bellevue Community College women's soccer team, which he coached for a single season. In 2002, he returned to the school as the men's soccer coach.
