TACOMA, WA— The University of Washington at Tacoma (UWT) is growing. This Fall a record enrollment of over 4,600 has filled the downtown campus. While varsity sports are a future possibility, students aren’t waiting to play. A soccer club is registered with UWT as an official student organization.

The club has a Facebook page at: Facebook.com/SoccerClubatUWT.

“Club” sports fall out of the realm of a typical varsity sports department (if a school has one) and into the category of extracurricular student activities. Information on the UWT Soccer Club is found under the “DawgDen” area of the school website.

Right now the group participates in a local Fall league. There are also Co-Ed matches and in April UWT Club Soccer competed in a tournament at Oregon State.

It might be a while before UWT is ready to join the West Coast Soccer Association, which features club teams at UW Seattle, Washington State, Central Washington, Gonzaga and Seattle U, but they have started and are growing their own soccer identity in the City of Destiny.