Former Kickapoo soccer standout Jack Jewsbury announced his plan to retire from professional soccer.
Jewsbury spent the past 14 seasons playing in Major League Soccer, the top professional soccer league in the United States and Canada. He spent the first eight years of his professional career with Sporting Kansas City (then the Kansas City Wizards) and the past six seasons with the Portland Timbers.
Jewsbury announced his pending retirement at a team banquet and followed up with a retirement message on Twitter.
Jewsbury, 35, played soccer at St. Louis University upon graduating from Kickapoo. The Wizards drafted him 43rd overall in the 2003 MLS SuperDraft.