When the Seattle Sounders unveiled their newest and most prominent sponsor during an event at Renton High School nearly two weeks ago, the mood was celebratory. Players tossed shirts into the stands, the high school students participated in a class-by-class contest to see who could do the best “boom-boom-clap”, and there was much talk of how Providence’s sponsorship was about a lot more than putting their name on the front of the Sounders’ jersey.
The biggest part of that “a lot more” was a youth mental health program that would be made available to Renton School District students in partnership with Providence.