Seattle, WA
Sources: Gotham Trades Lynn Williams, Cassie Miller to Seattle for Jaelin Howell and Transfer Fee
Multiple sources have confirmed to Sports Illustrated that forward Lynn Williams and goalkeeper Cassie Miller have been traded from NJ/NY Gotham FC to Seattle Reign in exchange for midfielder Jaelin Howell and an undisclosed transfer fee. Neither Gotham nor Seattle commented on the trade when contacted.
Sources have indicated that Williams, a California native, has wanted to finish her NWSL career at a club on the West Coast, a request which factored this into the trade.
The U.S. women’s national team forward joined Gotham in 2023 and has played a key role in the club’s rejuvenation over the past two seasons, which culminated in winning the NWSL Championship in ’23 and advancing to the semifinals in ’24. She also recently scored the winning goal for the USWNT in a friendly against the Netherlands.
Williams is the NWSL’s all-time leading goalscorer with 80 across all competitions, and ranks third all-time for assists with 28. During her two seasons with Gotham, she tallied 11 goals and four assists in 35 league matches.
Howell, a former Mac Hermann Trophy winner, is set for her third NWSL club in five months. In 2024, the 25-year-old midfielder was traded to Seattle from Racing Louisville at the end of the August transfer window. Reign transferred $50,000 and Bethany Balcer to Racing in order to make that deal happen.
A player of supreme potential, Howell was drafted second in the 2022 NWSL draft but has struggled to maintain form and fitness. Over the past two seasons, she averaged 18 appearances and 1,241 minutes per season. She served as captain for Louisville and has been lauded for her leadership on and off the pitch.
Cassie Miller joined Gotham via a trade from the Kansas City Current in 2024 in exchange for $70,000 in allocation money and a $30,000 intra-league transfer fee. The 29-year-old initially held the starting goalkeeper slot due to a season-ending injury sustained by Abby Smith, Gotham’s starter in 2023.
However, midway through the 2024 season, Gotham picked up German keeper Ann-Katrin Berger, limiting Miller’s playing time. Before that, Miller began her professional career in Europe with PSV Eindhoven and then Apollon Limassol, before returning to the U.S. to play for the Chicago Red Stars and KC Current in the NWSL.
This is the first major offseason move for Seattle, but it has already been a busy window of departures for Gotham. It kicked off with midfield stalwart Delanie Sheehan moving from NJ/NY to the Houston Dash as a free agent. Then, defender Sam Hiatt signed with the Portland Thorns, and Spanish utility player Maitane López was picked up by the Red Stars. More moves are expected in the coming weeks.
Quentin Mosby apparently has decided he’s better off playing his high school basketball on the shores of the Gulf Coast rather than just up the street from Lake Washington.
At IMG Academy, rather than the Lakeside School.
In South Florida, rather than North Seattle.
On Thursday, multiple basketball websites reported the 6-foot-2 Mosby, after two years at academic-minded Lakeside, will transfer and play his final two seasons at sports-centric IMG in the coastal community of Bradenton.
It appears Mosby simply needed a step up in basketball competition after averaging 30.4 points per game for Lakeside as a sophomore and continuing his high-scoring ways with Seattle Select on the Under Armour All-Star circuit this summer at a 24.5 clip.
The forseeable drawback to this arrangement is the University of Washington basketball program, which made him a scholarship offer last month, will now have to conduct a long-distance courtship of this savvy player rather than just head to a local gym.
NEWS: 2028 4⭐ Quentin Mosby will transfer to IMG Academy (FL) for his junior season of high school, sources told @LeagueRDY.
Mosby currently leads the UAA U17 in scoring and has picked up offers from Utah, Georgia Tech, Washington and Stanford amongst others.
A major stock… pic.twitter.com/3v7rjB1ZnX
— Sam Kayser (@KayserHoops) July 2, 2026
Mosby is clearly a mature player with the ball in his hands, able to go to the hoop with authority as well drain 3-pointers from around the perimeter.
Yet he largely was a one-man show at a school that counts its most famous alums as Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Batman actor Adam West, McCaw Cellular founder Craig McCaw, Washington Governor Booth Gardner, Space Needle owner David Skinner and Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Corbin Carroll.
Typical of his dominance in the 3A Metro League, Mosby came up with a 40-point, 10-assist performance in Lakeside’s 83-77 overtime victory over Franklin this past January.
His father Dre Mosby reportedly played for Spokane’s John Rogers High School and led the Greater Spokane League in scoring at 20-plus points per game in 1997 after moving with family members from Southern California. He’s now a Seattle gym owner and a fitness trainer.
So good at such a young age, this young Mosby just keeps getting more offensive-minded, showing no reluctance at all to take on older players. He holds offers from Georgia Tech, Stanford, Seattle University, Utah and Weber State, with others such as Gonzaga making contact.
So now, if all goes as planned, it’s on to Florida to see where that will take his game and then whether he’ll come back to play his college basketball in his hometown.
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COUNTDOWN: Two days until West Seattle Fourth of July Kids’ Parade! Here’s the newest info
Just two days until hundreds of West Seattle’s youngest residents will parade through the streets of North Admiral with their families, as the Admiral Neighborhood Association again presents the West Seattle Fourth of July Kids’ Parade. We’ve checked in with parade coordinators for the newest info:
>Gina Topp (SPS School Board President, Admiral resident, and owner of Mission Cantina) will kick off the parade.
–Kavya Bhatkar (age 10), a School of Rock student, will sing the anthem.
-Title sponsors for the parade are: Neighborhood Naturopathic and Primary Care and Holy Rosary.
-Food available for purchase including:
Seattle Pops
West Seattle Grounds
Where Ya at Matt
Empanadas El Pachi
La La Lemonade
Seattle Sorbet
Hawk Dogs
Sugar & Spoon
The parade starts at 10 am Saturday from 45th SW and SW Sunset, heads west on Sunset for a bit, turns south and then east, ending at Hamilton Viewpoint Park for a post-parade celebration with sack races, activity booths, the aforementioned food/treat vendors, and if they’re not called away to an emergency, an SFD truck to see. No RSVP or registration required to be in the parade – just show up (non-motorized bikes, trikes, scooters, strollers, etc., welcome, or just walk).
(2024 reader photo of fireworks damage on Nino Cantu SW Athletic Complex turf)
Here’s the annual announcement from Seattle Parks – we’ve excised the non-local parks:
Seattle Parks and Recreation will turn on field lighting on ballfields throughout the city on the evening of Friday, July 3 and Saturday, July 4 to protect the surfaces. The ballfield lights will be turned on at approximately 9 PM.
The lights will be turned on to discourage the use of fireworks. Fireworks are illegal in the city of Seattle and will destroy the artificial turf on the fields or surrounding facilities. The approximate replacement cost for the synthetic surface based on per average full-size field (110,000 square feet) is $1.2 million. All the fields have been renovated in the past several years and benefit field users including soccer, football, baseball, ultimate frisbee and lacrosse.
The fields will be monitored from 9 PM to 3 AM
Lights at the following synthetic fields will be turned off at 3 AM on July 3 and 4:
Delridge Playfield, 4458 Delridge Way SW
Hiawatha Playfield, 2700 California Ave. SW
South Park Playfield, 8319 8th Ave S
Walt Hundley Playfield, 6920 34th Avenue SWLights will be turned off at the following grass fields at 11 PM on July 3 and 4:
West Seattle Stadium, 4432 35th Ave. SW
Comparing this to last year’s announcement, the lights will be on longer the night before the 4th, and the “monitoring” will be an hour later.
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