Continuing their pattern of adding University of Washington Huskies standouts in recent years, the Sounders on Thursday announced that Kenyan-born midfielder Handwalla Bwana, 18, has signed a Homegrown Player contract with the team and will report to training camp later this month.
The former refugee from Mombassa spent the past two seasons with the Huskies touted as one of the most under-the-radar recruits in the nation and perhaps the best young soccer player to come out of the Seattle area. That’s saying something, for a city that’s already produced Mercer Island native and Sounders striker Jordan Morris, along with DeAndre Yedlin, the Shoreline product now plying his trade for Newcastle in the English Premier League.