A soccer star is making news on the gridiron. That may be U.S. Women’s National Team soccer icon Carli Lloyd’s present, but it’s also the recent past for a Thorns FC player with prominent local connections. As some familiar with the last decade of Portland sports know, there was a time when the Thorns’ own Bella Bixby, then a placekicker at Milwaukie's Rex Putnam High School, was making headlines on a different football field.
Those days are long past for the former Bella Geist, but with a U.S. legend in the headlines for her exploits with the pigskin, The Quick 3 thought it the perfect time to drive down memory lane with one of the youngest Thorns.