These are extraordinary times. The COVID pandemic has impacted our industry like never before. Yet, all around us, we find resilience and perseverance. Whether it is our industry’s swift response to mask development, the rapid formation of the PLAY Coalition initiative, or the collaborative creation of safe return to play guidelines, we are collectively coming together to fight through one of the toughest moments in our history.
Still, we wanted to find a way to help beyond simply providing products. We decided to pull together the best ideas we could find to help youth sports teams and leagues repair their budgets, find new revenue, or save costs. These are ideas that you can take to your customers to help them through this difficult time. These ideas go beyond uniforms and apparel to find every dollar possible and bring every kid possible back to youth sports.
Today, we are sharing our best ideas for budget friendly apparel and equipment. Many of these solutions we created specifically to help youth sports organizations save money.
We will post all of the ideas in our COVID blog series to gather feedback that will allow you to build and add onto these ideas. This will be our first post in an on-going weekly series. Next week, we will look at new revenue and spiritwear ideas.
Practice:
Before you get back on the field or the court, your team will need to practice. Due to COVID-19, we know practice will look different as athletes are encouraged to not share practice pinnes or jerseys to prevent the spread of the virus. Augusta Sportswear Brands has a number of excellent practice apparel options – from masks to pinnines – available to support your organization’s training needs. All items are in stock and ready to ship same day.
NexGen Wicking Tees from Augusta Sportswear Brands
With performance wicking fabric attributes truehue color fast technology, wicking tees like the NexGen 790 can provide similar performance characteristics as performance game uniforms but with a for a fraction of the price. They are an ideal option for a shortened season uniform.
With a large selection of styles and colors on the shelf and ready to ship, Augusta Sportswear Brands will certainly have an option to meet your needs.
Reversible Pinnies & Tees by Augusta Sportswear Brands
With a wide variety of colors and sizes basic pinnies are a great versatile option to create basic uniforms for a variety of sports. With plenty of inventory on the shelves at Augusta Sportswear Brands, product can ship out same day.
Non-Medical Face Covering Collection by Augusta Sportswear Brands
As we return to play it is still important that everyone remain vigilant in preventing the spread of the virus. When physical distancing is not an option non-medical face coverings can help reduce the risk of community spread.
Augusta Sportswear Brands is offering 3-ply face masks and custom sublimated face coverings.
Uniforms:
In our new world, leagues are evaluating multiple options from shortened seasons to alternative programing such as one day skills clinics or weekend tournaments. That is the idea behind our budget friendly uniform collections. We have created a strong array of our best values across six different sports that are happening right now. Best of all, we are loaded in inventory on all of these items and ready to ship same day.
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Equipment:
Is your organization in need of equipment to return to play? Perhaps you are considering selling excess or gently used equipment to generate funds to buy new equipment, uniforms or fund other league expenses? Consider equipment solutions such as SidelineSwap or Play it Again Sports for all your equipment needs.
Play it Again Sports allows you to buy, sell, trade, or donate gently used sports and fitness equipment. With more than 258 locations nationwide, you can reuse, recycle and replay in stores or online at PLAY IT AGAIN Sports!
SidelineSwap allows you to buy and sell gently used sporting goods equipment from over 100,000 online users. Founded by former college athletes, SidelineSwap empowers every athlete, parent, coach and small business to sell equipment while offering the best selection of inventory at deeply discounted prices for buyers.
Check back next week for Spiritwear.