D1 team gets one shirt for gear drop

thats messed up, yo coach f-ing up brah

Be thankful you still have a program and an opportunity.

Revel in being a junkyard dog.

My son is starting his junior year. He probably has gotten 15 pairs of trainers, 4 spikes, 40 shirts, 10 shorts, jackets, pants, socks, gloves, amd hats.

I don't mind, but they require us to wear gear in the weight room, practice and traveling. Idk how we supposed to do that with one shirt.

Probably not just you but that’s less than most d3 teams get.

My d3 team gets one t shirt ;)

I was watching a tiktok last night of this walk on for Georgia's equestrian team (who knew that was a thing?!?!) going through her "Nike Christmas" of stuff she got for being on the team. It was insane for a sport even less relevant than XC.

Like Spaulding in the movie Caddyshack, "You will get nothing and you will like it."

Why would anyone need 40 shirts? That's just annoying.

And, doesn't seem very Earth friendly with all the resources gobbled up to make all that gear. Isn't the school concerned about climate change?

This post has been refreshed as a reminder as to what you can do:

Illinois ROBBED at NCAAs?! One athlete resorted to drawing Illinois logo onto t-shirt in place of stolen uniform - LetsRun.com

We had no matching cold weather gear for the biggest meet of the year and had to result to wearing the only thing we all did have, cotton t-shirts, under our uniform. After that our school gave out more gear yearly, including dri-fit tops and they've never made it back to NCAAs since.... so be careful what you wish for.

Name and shame your school

Yeah, that's wild for a D1. It's possible there was a mix-up depending on who your sponsor is and how good the people in charge of distributing it are. When did they ask everyone for shoe/shirt/pant size? For XC they should've asked that before the school year began. I'm assuming that this is your first year at the school?

Nike sponsored school. We had a change in head coach and there may have been a mix up in the process.

junior this year. Freshman year we got a good gear haul, last year it was 2 shirts, shorts, shoes and spikes. This year just one shirt, nothing else

I went to CU pre-Wetmore and we got nothing and liked it.

I coached as an assistant for a local H.S. track team, distance coach. This school had a cross country program for decades. But was dropped 10 years before my time there. Lack of interest was the excuse. So one of my goals was to resurrect the program by talking to my distance guys and gals to give it a try.

I had limited success at first. I'd get 1 or 2 a year to give it a try. When the beginning of the season rolled around I'd ask the AD for cross country uniforms for the kids. The AD's response was, the school discarded them when the program was dropped.

I guess the AD at the time thought X-C was dead and long forgotten and discarded the old X-C uniforms. So my kids had to run a full X-C season wearing uniforms that said M****** Track on the front.

When I was in H.S. the school provided spikes for X-C and Track. When I was coaching, athletes were required to provide their own trainers and spikes.

Anyways, long story, but that's my experience with uniforms.

I ran for a D1 program in the early 2000s, and the basketball team got running shoes, whereas the XC team did not. We did get generic athletic department sweats every year and a XC specific T-shirt. It was really only the shoe disparity thing that bothered me.