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Susie Rantz
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Soccer Fan. Nerd. I write about Seattle Reign, advocate for disability inclusion, and do social impact communications work. Must love dogs. she/her
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reignfc.com
An ode to Lu Barnes 👑 #ForeverReign

🎙️: @mikewattsonair.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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galpalsports.bsky.social
SUPER important WNBA update:
shameka23.bsky.social Shameka 🏀 @shameka23.bsky.social · 4d
Remember that little boy who cried uncontrollably because he wanted A’ja Wilson to come to his house??? He got to MEET her and I cannot deal… 🥹😭❤️ #WNBA
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
susierantz.bsky.social
UW women's soccer is hosting Montana for the first round of the NCAA tourney on Friday at 7 p.m.!

#ForMia 🧡🧡🧡 #NCAAWSoccer

Tickets are available: gohuskies.evenue.net/event/WS25/N...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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circlingseasports.bsky.social
"I don't know if I quite have the words right now. They continue to show up and give their best... It's been a hard week, but it just shows how much this team loves each other and how much we love Mia."

UW head coach Nicole Van Dyke postgame on the Big Ten network broadcast.

#GoHuskies
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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frankmsounders.bsky.social
Tanner Ijams stones Michigan State in 2 of first 3 shootout attempts and Washington claims B1G double by winning tournament final, 1-1 (4-1). #ForMia
November 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
susierantz.bsky.social
UW Women's Soccer just won the BIG 10 championship in a penalty shootout, and they did it for their teammate Mia Hamant, who just passed away from a rare kidney cancer.

I'm so emotional right now.

apnews.com/article/wash...
Washington women’s soccer goalkeeper Mia Hamant dies at 21 after kidney cancer battle
Mia Hamant, a goalkeeper for Washington’s women’s soccer team who helped the Huskies reach the semifinals of the Big Ten tournament as a junior, has died. She was 21.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
susierantz.bsky.social
Really, really loved these words from @bedirthan.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy. Soccer is about people. And connection. It's about humanity.
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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janegphoto.bsky.social
One of the kindest most beautiful humans you can ever be blessed to work with and meet. We are so lucky here in Seattle and I hope other people see how much it means to have a player stay with a club -a club that has literally been through EVERYTHING - for their entire career.
jeffkassouf.bsky.social Jeff Kassouf @jeffkassouf.bsky.social · 7d
Lauren Barnes played her last pro game tonight: 252 #NWSL regular season appearances, 21,000+ minutes -- the only player to ever achieve either, and she did it entirely in Seattle. End of an era.
nwslsoccer.com NWSL @nwslsoccer.com · 7d
Lu leaving for the last time... 💙
November 8, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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At her presser today, I asked Laura Harvey for her thoughts on the discourse about trans athletes and the #NWSL, and the divisive rhetoric targeting some players for their appearance. Here is her answer (with transcript of her remarks in alt text):
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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newyorker.com
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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rideofvalkyries.com
It's déjà vu all over again as the Reign face the Pride again tomorrow, but this time the winner advances and the loser's season is done. www.sounderatheart.com/2025/11/seat...
Seattle Reign face Orlando Pride in first round of NWSL playoffs
The Reign kick off the NWSL quarterfinals on Friday, November 7
www.sounderatheart.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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gabriellehealy.bsky.social
my convo with @susierantz.bsky.social about the @seattlereignfc.bsky.social

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Reign on me: Seattle's NWSL team heads back to the playoffs - Soundside
The Seattle Reign play the Orlando Pride in a win-or-go-home match this week. Do they have the potential for a deep playoff run?
omny.fm
November 7, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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rideofvalkyries.com
Seattle Reign are on the road tomorrow for their final match of the regular season. They'll face the Orlando Pride on Decision Day.

A win would ensure the Reign host a playoff game next weekend.

www.sounderatheart.com/2025/11/matc...
Match preview: Seattle Reign vs. Orlando Pride
The Reign close out the regular season on the road, with a home playoff spot on the line.
www.sounderatheart.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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rideofvalkyries.com
Tomorrow, Lauren Barnes will suit up for her final regular-season match with Seattle Reign.

Take a look at her 13-year career with the Reign, thanks to this photo gallery from @mikerussellfoto.com:

www.sounderatheart.com/2025/11/phot...
Photo Gallery: Legendary Lu
A look back over the years of Seattle Reign FC stalwart, Lauren Barnes.
www.sounderatheart.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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circlingseasports.bsky.social
The 2025-26 season starts in just a few days for UW Women's basketball, and we're pumped to cover the program once again. @munson-bella.bsky.social, @rowanschaberg.bsky.social, and Charles bring you a season preview for UW

Tune in: youtu.be/Dd03exmAahU

#GoHuskies #UWWomensBasketball #SeattleSports
UW Women's basketball 2025-26 season preview - The Husky women's hoops show, October 30th, 2025
YouTube video by Circling Seattle Sports
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October 31, 2025 at 2:57 AM
susierantz.bsky.social
In today's pre-match press conference, Charles w/ @circlingseasports.bsky.social asked Laura Harvey about her podcast comment about using ChatGPT to move to a 5-back with Seattle Reign, which went a bit viral this week.

Here's what she said:
I think for clarity and context, we are a club and a team that we are always trying to do everything possible to be innovative and be curious. And I was literally sat in the offseason, bored one day at home, and wrote one thing in one time and I've never done it again and probably won't for a while now. But I think, yeah, it's obviously something that is in our world nowadays I think with life. But does it replace the expertise of coaching staff and the expertise of analysts and all the work that we do every day to try and prepare ourselves? No, absolutely not. But I think the big thing about women's football is we're always trying to be innovative. Whether it be Michele Kang's company working on, I can't remember what the name of it is, but working on the women's health and trying to support our athletes as best we possibly can, we use a lot of technology in how we analyze things, whether it be data performance, whether it be video analytics, whatever it might be to best prepare ourselves to be able to put the best product on the field that we possibly can. And I'm proud to be part of an organization that's always thinking outside the box. This was … what I said was not an example of that. It was me sat on my sofa on my own and in context of what I said, I'd never played a back five in my whole coaching career and I'd never really thought about it. And just by reading some articles it made me think, ‘Oh, maybe it's something I should really look into and could we as a team execute that?’ And that's where the work started really was to really delve deep into was that something that we could do? And from some articles that I read that other teams had thought about it, whether it be in the men's game or in the women's game, they played it in different ways. Obviously Manchester United pretty well-known for playing it right now, and it set me on a journey to go and delve deeper, literally was it that that was all it was. And yeah, the blowup and the, I've never gone viral, so that's been an interesting few days for me. But yeah, obviously for me, I'm just conscious that I don't want to take away anything from our coaching staff and our analytics department and everyone that works so hard on trying to do the best we possibly can every week to put something on the field that our players and our staff and our club can be proud of. And like I said before, none of technology replaces human expertise. Our sport is about gut feeling, it's about going with instinct as much as it's about all the research and all the other stuff that we do behind the scenes that no analytical database is ever going to be able to tell you those things around gut feeling and just the way that you feel about something. And me as a coach, I'm very much drawn into that. Anyone who knows me, actually I'm very anti-data, pretty much you guys say all the time and I'm like, don't talk to me about certain data metrics. I'm not that interested in it. So for me to be the one that's actually blown up virally about something like that, I find quite amusing.
November 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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frankmsounders.bsky.social
Top-seeded UW women begin going for B1G double on Sunday. www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-hu...
How UW women’s soccer shocked Big Ten and rallied behind a cancer diagnosis
UW women's soccer won its first conference championship since 2000. Here's how the Huskies overcame the odds while playing for a teammate battling cancer.
www.seattletimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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watmildon.bsky.social
It me! I am that fan!

You too can join Clawd Squad! All you need is $6 (what they cost me to get made) and to find me at a Reign FC game. I am the overly enthusiastic doofus pitchside with the silly signs.
A box in a garage full of novelty navy foam lobster claws with CLAWD SQUAD screen printed on them in white.
October 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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from sarah gorden:
October 31, 2025 at 1:19 AM
susierantz.bsky.social
During this 2025 Spooky Season, I can confirm that The Descent is still very very spooky.
October 31, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Prepare to have Lynn’s Claudia Dickey song stuck in your head. Claudia, Claudia 🎶🦞👏
October 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
susierantz.bsky.social
Ahhhh, I now need Seattle Reign to host a home playoff match and I need everyone to purchase and wear this Lu Legend tee for the match!
reignfc.com Seattle Reign FC @reignfc.com · 16d
More than merch, it’s a moment. Grab your Lu Legend tee today.

🛒 www.reignfcshop.com/products/lau...
October 29, 2025 at 11:22 PM
susierantz.bsky.social
GWAR sure was an experience !!
October 28, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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propublica.org
Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans.

(Published July)
By @andreasuozzo.com, Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser
Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It.
Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion.
www.propublica.org
October 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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roseroomco.bsky.social
⚫️🐑

The Black Sheep Kit is a reflection of our place within the greater WoSo community and our continued desire to make it a more inclusive space for all.

50% of sales will be donated to BWPC and their efforts to expand the game to black girls across the country.

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Gaby Vincent, former Washington Spirit player, rocking a black and white kit with sheep on it. In the center are the letters CGT in gold. Rose Room Collective member rocking a black and white kit with sheep on it. One sheep is black. In the center are the letters CGT in gold. The Rose Room Collective “Black Sheep Kit. It’s a a black and white soccer jersey with sheep on it. One sheep is black. In the center are the letters CGT in gold. The sleeve of the jersey has the emblem for the Black Women’s Player Collective.
October 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM