Grant Gibbs is a former U.S. soccer defender who spent his professional career in clubs F.C. Portland, Seattle Storm and

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Biography

Gibbs grew up in

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, where he attended Thomas Jefferson High School. After graduating from high school in 1982, Gibbs attended

Warner Pacific College Warner Pacific University is a private Christian university in Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1937, the university is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities and affiliated with the Church of God. History The school w ...

. While in college, he played for F.C. Portland of the

Western Soccer Alliance Western Soccer Alliance was a professional soccer league featuring teams from the West Coast of the United States and Western Canada. The league began in 1985 as the Western Alliance Challenge Series. In 1986, it became the Western Soccer Alli ...

(WSA) from 1985 to 1987. In 1988, he moved to the Seattle Storm where he played until the end of the 1990 season. He was a first team All Star in 1988 and a second team All Star in 1989. In December 1989 and January 1990, he travelled to England where he trained with the lower division clubs

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and AFC Bournemouth. When he was unable to secure a contract, he returned to Seattle for the 1990 season. The Storm folded at the end of the 1990 season and Gibbs then moved to the

of the American Professional Soccer League, which was formed by the merger of the WSA and American Soccer League.

External links

Seattle Storm profile
1964 births Living people Western Soccer Alliance players Seattle Storm (soccer) players Portland Timbers (1985–1990) players American Professional Soccer League players Miami Freedom players American soccer players Warner Pacific Knights men's soccer players People from Federal Way, Washington Soccer players from Washington (state) Association football defenders {{US-footy-defender-stub