Portland Timbers midfielder Ned Grabavoy hit a significant milestone last weekend in the team’s regular-season match against the Colorado Rapids: 300 career MLS appearances.
In a league that’s seen thousands of players take to the field, Grabavoy becomes only the 39th player in MLS history to achieve the feat and joins two other Timbers on the list: midfielder Jack Jewsbury and defender Nat Borchers.
Grabavoy reflected on the accomplishment and how much has changed since he was a rookie out of Indiana University—where current Timbers head coach Caleb Porter was then an assistant—when he first took to the field with the LA Galaxy during the 2004 season.