Community comes together for former Eastlake grad

Eastlake soccer team will host a fundraiser for Riley Brown at Mod Pizza

The entire Eastlake Wolves soccer community will converge at Mod’s Pizza in Sammamish in early August — but’s not it’s not for an after-game pizza.

They’ll be there to support a recent Eastlake grad who was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma in early 2015.

Riley Brown, who played soccer for the Wolves during her high school years, graduated in 2013. She is currently attending the University of Arizona where she is pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in broadcast journalism with an emphasis in sports media. New Eastlake head soccer coach Marc Wilson met Brown for the first time this spring.

“Riley is an incredible young woman and one of those people that has a smile on her face all the time,” Wilson said. “You can see why people gravitate toward her.”

Wilson and the Wolves will host an all-day fundraiser benefitting Brown and her family Aug. 4.

“Mod Pizza will donate 20 percent of all sales on that day to the Eastlake Booster Club, which will in turn donate those funds to Riley Brown and her family,” Wilson said.

Wilson said Brown is part of the Eastlake Wolves soccer family.

“One of our big mottos as a soccer program is family and that extends beyond just the group of girls that are playing here today, it extends to all the alumni that played here in the past,” he said. “We are a tight-knit community. Once family, always family.”

Wilson announced in mid-July that Brown was named as an honorary alumni staff coach for the 2015-16 season.

Shaun Scott: 425-453-5045; sscott@soundpublishing.com