Dick McCormick

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Dick McCormick
Personal information
Date of birth September 25, 1968(1968-09-25)
Place of birth    Seattle, Washington, United States
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Playing position Midfielder
Youth clubs
1987-1988 Warner Pacific College
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1988
1989-1990
1989-1991
1992-1994
1993
1994-1996
1997
1998
1998-1999
2000-2002
F.C. Portland
Portland Timbers
Tacoma Stars (indoor)
Canton Invaders (indoor)
Portland Pride (indoor)
Seattle Sounders
Seattle SeaDogs (indoor)
Seattle Sounders
Florida ThunderCats (indoor)
Seattle Sounders



57 (25)
28 (27)
52 0(6)
28 (31)
15 0(4)
08 0(5)   
Teams managed
2002-
2002-
Seattle Sounders (assistant)
Seattle Sounders Saints

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Dick McCormick (born September 9, 1968 in Seattle, Washington) is a former U.S. soccer midfielder and current youth soccer coach. McCormick had an extenisive professional career in six indoor and outdoor leagues over his fourteen year professional career. He has served as an assistant coach with the Seattle Sounders and head coach of the Sounders W-League women’s team. He is currently the Director of Coaching with the Crossfire Premier soccer club.

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[edit] High school and college

McCormick grew up in the Capital Hill neighbourhood of Seattle. He attended Interlake High School where he was a four year soccer letterman. He then attended Warner Pacific College, playing soccer in 1987 and 1988.

[edit] Professional

In the summer of 1988, McCormick spent the collegiate off season with the semi-professional F.C. Portland of the Western Soccer Alliance. When he left college after the 1988 fall collegiate season, he rejoined the team which had become a fully professional team known as the Portland Timbers. In the fall of 1989, McCormick also signed with the Tacoma Stars of the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL). Over the next two years, he would alternate between these two teams, playing outdoor with the Timbers in 1990 and indoor with the Stars in 1990-1991. In 1992, McCormick signed with the Canton Invaders of the indoor National Professional Soccer League (NPSL). He played two winter indoor seasons with the Invaders (1992-1993 and 1993-1994). In the summer of 1993, he played with the Portland Pride of the Continental Indoor Soccer League (CISL). In 1994, McCormick signed with the expansion Seattle Sounders of the American Professional Soccer League. He spent three seasons with the Sounders, then moved to the Seattle SeaDogs of the CISL for the summer of 1997. The SeaDogs won the championship, then folded. McCormick returned to the Sounders for the 1998 season, but moved to the Florida ThunderCats of the NPSL. The ThunderCats lasted only one season and McCormick signed with the Sounders as a free agent in April 2000.

[edit] Coaching

McCormick began coaching on the youth soccer level with the Crossfire Premier soccer club in 1997. In February 2002, he was hired as an assistant coach with the Seattle Sounders and in July 2002, he became the head coach of the Seattle Sounders Saints, the club’s women’s team which competes in the W-League. [1]

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ Crossfire Premier coaching profile