Let’s say for example a school is sponsored by Nike. At meets and in practice, are you required to wear Nike, or whatever brand the school is sponsored by?
Let’s say for example a school is sponsored by Nike. At meets and in practice, are you required to wear Nike, or whatever brand the school is sponsored by?
It depends on how exclusive the contract is. Generally you have to wear the sponsor brand at any competitions or public appearances representing the team, but not for practice. I ran for a Big Ten school sponsored by Nike and while we were given all Nike gear, we could wear whatever we wanted to practice, but had to wear all Nike or unbranded gear for meets. If you didn't like Nike shoes, you could trade a pair of yours in for another brand, but had to keep one pair to wear at meets. The only way out of wearing the shoes was if you got a medical exemption for it. I've also worked at DIII schools sponsored by other brands and we did not have shoe contracts, so those were excluded and only team issued gear had to be from that brand. The Adidas school told us we were supposed to wear only that brand at practice and meets, but we never enforced it at practice and we let kids wear other brands on cold meet days if they didn't own Adidas warm clothes since we didn't given them every type of clothing they might want to wear. The Under Armour rep at my current school told me straight up that only team issued clothes had to be UA and it didn't matter if other brands were showing at meets if it wasn't our uniforms.
At my school you must wear branded clothing for all team activities. This means that obviously during competition you wear your uniform. During practice I have to wear a team colored and branded, Nike shirt, shorts, and shoes. It doesn't matter if we are driving to the middle of no where and will literally see 0 people, the team must wear abide by dress code. During travel to competition I have to wear team branded Nike gear at all times. During weightlifting must wear team gear.
The school also gives out a lot of clothes which means that people don't only have 1 shirt. If a school doesn't receive and give out as much gear I could imagine them being less strict about dress code.
At my college we could wear other brand shoes. But always team issued gear otherwise at competition which was branded. At practice it was relaxed.