The four-time defending NFC West Champion Seattle Seahawks open their 33rd season this summer. The Seahawks return to Kirkland's Northwest University for the second consecutive season to hold training camp practices beginning on Friday,July 25.

It will be the Seahawks' final month in the Kirkland facility which the team has occupied since June 18, 1986. The team will move in to the Virginia Mason Athletic Center (VMAC) along the shore of Lake Washington in Renton next month. Football Operations and team practices move to VMAC on Monday, August 18.

The Seahawks will utilize Northwest University's dormitories while continuing to train at the team's Kirkland practice fields, weight room, training room and dining facilities.

From 1976-85 and 1997-2006, the team traveled east of the Cascade Mountain Range for its annual summer camp at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, where it hosted 20 training camps. This will be Seattle's 13th training camp overall and second stint at the adjacent college, where it held camp from 1986-96.

Practices will be closed to the public this year due to limited space surrounding the practice fields. Next season, training camp will be open to the public with practices held at VMAC.

On Saturday, August 2, the team will hold its annual intrasquad scrimmage at Qwest Field, wrapping up the first week of camp. Admission is $12 for adults (ages 18 and over), $5 for youth (ages 6-17) and children five and younger are free. Tickets are available at all Ticketmaster outlets and ticketmaster.com.

The team opens the preseason in Minnesota on Friday, August 8, then return home to host the Chicago Bears on Saturday, August 16.

After breaking camp on Thursday, August 21, the team heads south to San Diego to face the Chargers in its only Monday Night appearance of the season on August 25, at 5:00 p.m. Seattle will close its third straight preseason at home facing Oakland, hosting the Raiders on Friday, August 29. Last season, the Seahawks captured their fourth-straight NFC West crown and advanced to the NFC Divisional Playoff Game for the third consecutive season. It was Seattle's sixth division title in club history, and fifth since Mike Holmgren took over in 1999. Seattle won the AFC West in 1988 and 1999 and has now won the NFC West from 2004-07.

Holmgren is the longest-tenured head coach in team history, entering his 10th season. He passed Chuck Knox last season for most career Seattle victories with an 86-68 (.558) record, while Knox compiled an 83-67 record in his nine years at the helm.

His 170-110 (.607) career head coaching record trails Hall of Famer Joe Gibbs' 171-101 record for 10th place in NFL history. He is tied (Philadelphia's Andy Reid) as the third-longest tenured head coach with the same club behind Tennessee's Jeff Fisher and Denver's Mike Shanahan (14 years).