Dylan Harvey Aluli Teves (born May 14, 2000) is an American professional

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player who plays as a

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for

Seattle Sounders FC Seattle Sounders Football Club is an American professional men's soccer club based in Seattle. The Sounders compete as a member of the Western Conference of Major League Soccer (MLS). The club was established on November 13, 2007, and began ...

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Career

Teves was part of the

academy, and appeared for their

USL The USL Championship (USLC) is a professional men's soccer league in the United States that began its inaugural season in 2011. The USL is sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation (U.S. Soccer) as a Division II league since 2017, p ...

affiliate side

Seattle Sounders FC 2 Tacoma Defiance, formerly Seattle Sounders FC 2, is an American professional soccer team based in Tacoma, Washington, U.S. that competes in the MLS Next Pro, the third tier of the national soccer pyramid, as the reserve team of Seattle Soun ...

during their 2017 and 2018 seasons.

College

Teves joined the

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program at the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...

later in 2018. While a freshman at Washington, Teves began a regular starter for the Huskies halfway through the

2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season The 2018 NCAA Division I men's soccer season was the 60th season of NCAA championship men's college soccer. The regular season began on August 24, 2018 and continued into the first weekend of November 2018. The season culminated with the four-tea ...

. Teves scored his first goal for Washington on August 30, 2018, in a 2-3 loss to the

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. At the end of the

2018 Pac-12 Conference men's soccer season The 2018 Pac-12 Conference men's soccer season was the 19th season of men's varsity soccer in the conference. The season began on August 24, 2018 and concluded on November 9, 2018. The four-time defending champions, Stanford, successfully defen ...

, Teves was named third-team All-Pac-12. During Teves' junior season, he was named an All-American by

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, and was one of five players in the nation to be named a consensus All-American.

Professional

On January 11, 2022, Teves signed a contract with the Sounders as a Homegrown Player.

References

External links

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U.S. Soccer Development Academy bio (Seattle Sounders FC)
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