For Washington, this season can best be summarized by Robert Frost’s poem, The Road Not Taken. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” Both literally and figuratively, the Huskies have taken an unconventional path to the College Cup.

Starting with the literal: as a lower seed in the NCAA tournament and a Big Ten program all the way on the West Coast, the program has had to rack up the travel miles. Consider this: on October 31st, the team flew across the country to play Maryland for a regular-season match, then flew back to play UCLA at home. Just 12 days later, the Huskies again flew to Maryland to partake in the Big Ten tournament, losing in the first round. They returned home to begin an NCAA tournament journey that started with a short trip to Oregon State, then a flight to SMU in Texas, another to Stanford in California, and then again to Maryland for the Elite Eight game.

Then, in the figurative sense, head coach Jamie Clark has built his College Cup roster with an old-school formula of mainly recruiting regionally and domestically. 20 of the 29 players on the roster are from Washington, by far the highest in-state percentage of any College Cup team. And with 28 of the 29 hailing from the United States, the Huskies also have the fewest international players (1) of any of the four remaining teams.

Now two games away from what would be the program’s first-ever national title, Clark will hope the callus built from that far less traveled road will provide the fortitude needed to win it all.

Ten Key Moments:

08/28/2025 - 1-1 draw with Portland condemns the Huskies to an 0-2-1 start.

09/08/2025 - 7-2 victory over rival Seattle is first sign of explosive offense.

09/16/2025 - Defeats Gonzaga 6-0 for another lopsided victory.

10/16/2025 - Richard Aman comes in at No. 6 in the TDS Midseason Player Rankings. Harrison Bertos joins at No. 18.

10/17/2025 - 2-0 victory over Rutgers is second straight over a ranked team after shutting out Indiana 3-0 in prior match.

10/24/2025 - Wins a third game by five or more goals in 5-0 victory over Ohio State.

11/12/2025 - Regular season ends with 0-2 Big Ten semi-final defeat to Michigan, marking third consecutive loss.

11/13/2025 - The Big Ten All-Conference recipients are announced and Aman receives Midfielder of the Year honors.. Joining the All-Conference lists are Bertos, Alex Hall, Zach Ramsey, Jadon Bowton, Charlie Kosakoff, and Asher Hestad.

11/20/2025 - Wins first round game at Oregon State 3-2 with late double overtime goal.

12/06/2025 - Defeats Maryland on the road to return to a second College Cup in four years.

Ten Key Statistics:

• Washington is playing in its second College Cup, with the other coming in 2021.

• Last five games have been on the road. Started with a trip to Maryland, then Oregon, Texas, California, and Maryland again.

• All four NCAA tournament games have been on the road.

• Have played more matches (14) on the road than at home (8).

• Charlie Kosakoff leads the team with ten goals.

• Richie Aman leads the team with 13 assists.

• Kosakoff (25), Aman (21), Zach Ransey (20), Alex Hall (17), Connor Lofy (10) are players with double-digit points.

• 15 players have scored a goal.

• Aman, Lofy, Joes Dale, and Egor Akulov have each started all 23 games.

• Jamie CLark has led program for 15 seasons.