A golden moment

Christoph Schmidt-Warnecke was lucky enough to get off the plane in Newark Airport at just the right time to meet Hope Solo, goalie of the U.S. Olympic women's soccer team.

Christoph Schmidt-Warnecke was lucky enough to get off the plane in Newark Airport, N.J., at just the right time to meet Hope Solo and members of the gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic women’s soccer team.

The Islander Middle School seventh-grader plays select soccer and was returning from a trip to Europe with his family. Goalie Solo, a UW graduate, talked with him about Washington state sports.