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SEATTLE — Most children concerned in sports activities dream of changing into a prime participant once they develop up. However Seattle Reign head coach Laura Harvey grew up desirous to be a coach.

“Every time we have been, as youngsters, me and my brother watching video games, we watched them by a lens of a coach, as a result of my dad made us kind of do this, to be trustworthy. So, I simply all the time had this love of it,” Harvey instructed The Equalizer.

She couldn’t have imagined then that on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024, she would turn out to be the primary head coach to win 100 common season Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League video games when her Seattle Reign defeated North Carolina Braveness 1-0.

The second had been a very long time coming, with win No. 99 recorded again on Could 3. Everybody was on the sting of their seats as stoppage time ticked down in a sport that remained scoreless till the 96th minute, when Emeri Adames pressured an personal objective off Braveness goalkeeper Casey Murphy. Veteran midfielder Jess Fishlock, who featured for Harvey in a majority of her NWSL victories, thinks it was destiny that the 18-year-old scored the objective securing Harvey’s one centesimal win, with Adames representing Harvey’s perception in her younger gamers and the Reign’s vivid future.

The reduction of lastly hitting the lengthy awaited milestone whereas getting a win the crew desperately wanted — each mentally and to mathematically keep alive within the playoff race — was palpable from the entire Reign gamers, employees, and followers in Lumen Subject after the ultimate whistle Sunday night time. For the record-setting coach, all credit score and delight within the outcome went to the gamers.

“My total ideas have been that I believed we had some superb particular person performances… however I feel simply as a collective group we knew what tonight meant — nothing to do with me and my wins — however simply what it meant getting three factors, setting the tone for the second half of the season, giving ourselves an opportunity to climb the place we wish to go, we knew we needed to win tonight,” Harvey instructed media after the belated win.