Flashback: Chance Fry, Sammamish, Class of 1982
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Sport: Boys soccer
High-school rewind: Fry played three seasons for Bellevue's Sammamish High School, leading the Totems to the Class AAA (now 4A) state-championship match as a junior in 1981. The prolific-scoring forward didn't play in the title match as Sammamish (19-1) lost to Highline 2-0. Fry was a member of a state all-star team which played the day after the state final, and school and state all-star administrators made him choose between the two. "As the years passed, I got mad about it," Fry said of missing the state-title match. "I wasn't allowed to do both. The high-school experience I missed was important to me later on." As a senior, Fry was named a Parade All-American and McDonald's All-American. He made the U-18 national team that played in the CONCACAF Cup in Guatemala in 1982.
After high school: Fry was drafted by the Seattle Sounders in the first round in 1982 and played 13 seasons of professional soccer. He ended his career as the A-League's career leader in goals scored with 68 (a record since broken). Fry scored a franchise-best 58 goals for Seattle's pro soccer teams, the Sounders and F.C. Seattle Storm.
Personal: He married Karlyn Sundsten in 1990. They have a boy, Cooper, 8, and a daughter, Tala, 6. Both children play soccer, among other sports.
Fast forward: Even though he only retired from pro soccer in 1998, the Sounders will honor Fry among their "Legends" during the 2004 season to commemorate 30 years since the Sounders were born.
After years of coaching teams of all ages, Fry, 39, was named coaching director of Eastside F.C. in 2003 and he was inducted into the Washington State Youth Soccer Association Hall of Fame on April 24, with Sounders coach Brian Schmetzer.
Fry and family friend Tom Bunnell are marketing a new product, Insta-bench, a lightweight, collapsible, fold-out bench made mainly of aluminum that seats up to six people on the sideline.
— Matt Massey