Salt Lake Sting
September 17, 2013
The Salt Lake Sting were a professional club that enjoyed a short, strange ride for parts of two seasons in the early 1990’s. The Sting were formed as an expansion team in the Western Soccer League in September 1989. Club founder Jack Donovan and his partners were a subset of the ownership group of the Salt Lake Trappers of minor league baseball. The Sting shared 40-year old Derks Field with the Trappers, with the soccer pitch awkwardly stretched across the outfield and portions of the dirt infield. Despite setting a league attendance record in 1990, the club foundered badly under new management in 1991 and folded without completing their schedule.
