The story of soccer in Puget Sound
Home Fields tells the stories of grassroots soccer in the Puget Sound region through the lens of political, social, cultural, and intersectional perspectives on sport.
Join us for the story of soccer as a mechanism to build belonging, fight for play equity, and expand access to community resources.
Through profiles of individuals, clubs, and neighborhoods, the project highlights not only the struggles these communities face, but also their resilience, solidarity, and joy.
This is a project of the Global Sport Lab at the Jackson School of International Studies at University of Washington.
Who We Are
Caley Cook
Caley Cook is Co-Director of Home Fields and a teaching professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington.
She is a journalist, filmmaker and multimedia producer with feature and investigative bylines in publications such as CBS Sports, Crosscut, The Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, Elko Daily Free Press, San Diego CityBeat, and others, where she wrote about crime, courts, sports, music, theatre, and culture. She is a lifelong soccer player, fan, and critic.
Ask her about her about her thoughts on youth sports and the culture of goalkeeping.
Grace DD Madigan
Grace (DD) Madigan is a Staff Reporter for Home Fields. She is a Seattle-based journalist who formerly worked at KNKX radio, where she covered Megan Rapinoe’s retirement for NPR and spent eight months investigating abuse in youth soccer.
In her free time she can be found playing pick-up and coaching high school soccer.
Ron Krabill
Ron Krabill is the Director of the Global Sport Lab and Co-Director of Home Fields.
He is a professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell. He is a lifelong soccer player and fan as well as a scholar of media, politics, cultural studies, and human rights.
He is the author of Starring Mandela & Cosby: Media and the End(s) of Apartheid (U of Chicago Press, 2010), co-editor of Feminist Interventions in Participatory Media: Pedagogy, Publics, Practice (Routledge, 2018), and a frequent contributor to Africa is a Country.