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SquadLocker Supports Behavioral Health at the Check the Stigma Hockey...

Providence, RI - On Friday and Saturday, SquadLocker sponsored the Check the Stigma Hockey Classic. The event raises funds and awareness for mental health throughout Rhode Island.

Ordering Options to Improve Your Uniform Game

With SquadLocker you’ve got options. You can choose the uniform ordering method that works best for you. We ship uniforms directly to each player or in bulk to one address. Either way, we can help you get uniforms done right and fast. {%...

Fundraising with SquadLocker

Have you ever wondered if there was an easier way to raise funds for your organization? We certainly have.

Pinewood Preparatory Sports and Club Apparel Program Gets Efficiency...

SquadLocker releases case study on Pinewood Prep mastering brand control and collaboration of custom apparel for 35 athletic and 30 academic/special interest teams

Create a Custom Apparel Capsule for Black History Month

Custom decorated apparel is the ultimate awareness-builder. It carries a special message for all to see, in words and/or images. What could be better than that? Apparel that not only bears a captivating design but comes with its own backstory.

5 Common Complaints About Online Custom Sports Apparel, and Why...

Custom sports apparel is the foundation of every team’s “presence” – uniforms, practice kits, team gear, and even spirit wear literally show the flag, decorated with your school or league logo and colors. But while custom apparel is a must for every...

The Ultimate Glossary of Terms: Online Custom Apparel

What, exactly, does that word mean? School administrators, coaches, team managers and others responsible for outfitting students and sports teams are certainly experts in your own field, but maybe not so much when it comes to the lingo of apparel...

Soccer Coaches Connect with SquadLocker Virtually at 2021 United...

SquadLocker’s unique direct-to-player sublimated uniform solution featured in digital booth, January 11-15, 2021

SquadLocker is School Approved [5 NEW REVIEWS]

Department heads and directors at schools big and small have hectic and demanding schedules, and they are recommending SquadLocker custom online apparel stores to ease the pain of providing uniforms, athletic gear, and spirit wear for all school...

What Customers Are Saying about Launching SquadLocker Stores

Thinking about setting up a free online custom apparel store for your school community or sports league? It’s super simple to launch a SquadLocker store as is the process for everyone to select, purchase, and directly receive custom uniforms,...

Undeniable Proof That You Need A Youth Sports Uniform Expert

Your team has worked so hard to return to play. They are so ready! But are their uniforms ready to play?

Digital Coupons - a Quick Guide for School Administrators

Whoever would have thought that digital coupons could be such a versatile tool for school administrators? Or that they would be so popular with all those people you aim to please?

Putting Your School Fundraising Dollars to Good Use

School fundraising has become a fact of life, for private and charter schools and even for public K-12 schools that are increasingly and chronically short of money.

What Customers are Saying About Hassle-Free Custom Apparel Ordering

SquadLocker’s concept of providing online apparel stores for every school and sports community began with the desire to help teachers, coaches, and parents teach more, coach more, and live more.

Digital Coupons - a Quick Guide for Youth Sports Organizations

One of the many reasons YSO admins love SquadLocker is that we make everything so easy. We know you have a lot of details and a lot of people to juggle, and the last thing you need is more confusion and paperwork just to get your team outfitted in...

6 Ways to Personalize Baseball Uniforms

You custom-decorate your baseball uniforms so that your team is instantly recognizable. Your colors and your logo give your players a professional look and distinguish your team from all others. Make no mistake about it, this is our team, and we’ve...

6 Ways to Personalize Softball Uniforms

Girls just want to have fun. (So sang Madonna.) And from the time they are little, girls have the most fun when they are doing something together. What better way than softball? Girls (and ladies) can have a great time together and show off their...

What 5 Reviews Say about SquadLocker’s Quality

SquadLocker’s unique and proprietary world-class technology allows us to customize any one apparel item rather than print in bulk. Consumers, including coaches, teachers, athletes, students, parents, and fans, are able to select and purchase the...

Many Thanks to Our Customers

November is National Gratitude Month. Gratitude has amazing powers to shift our energy from any negativity around us to appreciating what is positive and uplifting in our lives. And with Thanksgiving right around the corner, it’s the perfect time to...

Team and League Leaders Are Saying...

We love hearing feedback from coaches like you! Here's what some of our coaches are saying about SquadLocker, custom team apparel, and online stores:

Warwick PD Reaches Out with Awareness Store

Talk about impressive community engagement! Just two weeks after launch, the Warwick, RI Police Department’s SquadLocker awareness store brought in more than 30 orders! And the excitement continues.

SquadLocker Simplifies Checkout, Shipping as Buying from Multiple...

As digital transformation speeds up, schools and sports leagues build multiple online SquadLocker stores for communities to easily purchase custom apparel

Schools Are Talking About SquadLocker

Seven months into the pandemic, school communities have faced enormous challenges with online learning and social distancing. SquadLocker is happy to be supporting school communities, helping to foster inclusion and comradery by providing custom...

5 Stores We're Loving Lately and What You Can Learn from Them

We know that you established your SquadLocker store for a specific reason – for example, you wanted a faster, easier, reliable way for your students to get required dress uniforms. Or your athletes to get their sports uniforms and team gear. Or your...

Businesses Love SquadLocker for Logo’ed Apparel

SquadLocker has long supported sports organizations and schools with all they need in the way of custom uniforms, gear, and apparel. Businesses also love to use online SquadLocker stores to easily outfit employees with custom apparel as well as...

New Feature Sneak Peek! Multi-Store Checkout with Shared Cart

New features set to launch! We're deploying an update this week that we're really excited about, and we know you will be too! You asked us to update our shopping cart features - and we heard you loud and clear! The update we're releasing allows your...

We love hearing from you!

Customers are sharing on Trustpilot about working with SquadLocker, and we love what we’re seeing! Our customer service team goes above and beyond to help lift the burden of managing, ordering, and distributing custom school and team uniforms and...

Military Discounts Offered by SquadLocker

At SquadLocker, we pride ourselves on being military-friendly. That’s why we offer an exclusive military discount to service members, veterans, and their families.

Team Rosters: What to Include, Surprising Benefits, and Free Template

Team rosters can quickly become an afterthought. I mean, it’s just a piece of paper on a clipboard right? It can be. But it can also be an invaluable resource for managing teams in a covid-world and preparing your players for life beyond high...

Return to Play Webinar Hosted by SquadLocker and Augusta Sportswear...

SquadLocker’s Gary Goldberg and Augusta Sportswear’s Mark Botterill discuss increasing role of innovation and tech in safe return to play – Thursday, September 24, 2020

Get Personal with Apparel - The Difference Personalized Custom...

Research shows that when school spirit wear associated with a club, band, or sports team is worn, morale, along with the sense of belonging, is boosted. Personalization only adds to that sense of pride and comradery.

Chatting with Andrea and Dez - August Product Update

Join in the conversation with SquadLocker's Andrea Martone, Product Management Director, and Matt Desilet, SquadLocker's Director of Marketing as they chat about the past few weeks of exciting new features, company values, and more.

What's holding back School Dress Uniforms from being awesome?

Branding is a key reason many schools require students to wear dress uniforms, so it stands to reason that you want your uniforms to look awesome. They should inspire confidence in the quality of your educational program. They should inspire pride...

Booster Clubs Give Funds and Morale a Boost With an Easy Update

With many high school and college sports programs cancelled this fall, booster clubs across the country fear long-term financial setbacks for years to come. But, cutting other activities due to funding is not an option as students need social...

Modernizing Custom Apparel: Out of Bulk and into ECommerce

Data just released by IBM in their latest U.S. Retail Index reveals that ecommerce growth is now five years ahead of expectations, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic pushing so many shoppers online. IBM predicts that for the year 2020, ecommerce...

Easily Boost Engagement in Your SquadLocker Store with This Updated...

Want to boost the selling of your gear in your SquadLocker store? Our popular Roster feature – recently updated and renamed “Email List” on the dashboard – allows SquadLocker admins to easily announce a new store to their community. Admins love how...

Order Delivery: Our Favorite No-Contact Sport

No touching, please keep your distance. As most of us headed home to self-quarantine for the COVID-19 pandemic, stores closed. Online shopping, already popular, surged. Stuck-at-home purchasers were thrilled to have an easy-access outlet for their...

Most Common Issue with Ordering School Uniforms - And How to Avoid It

Ordering school uniforms to outfit your students is no easy feat – for you or the parents you serve. The biggest issue is the sheer inconvenience.

Team Fundraising: Expectations vs. Reality

Team fundraising. You can’t escape it. Teams always need money, whether we’re talking school sports, the robotics club, or an entire youth sports organization. New equipment, travel, scholarships and the like all require resources that often just...

SquadLocker Releases Return to Play e-Book to Help Get Youth Back to...

Compilation of tools and resources aims to help athletic directors and coaches create their own Return to Play plan

Team Fundraising the Hands-Free Way

What a relief to know that teams from the pros to youth sports will be back in action soon – even if play does look a bit different thanks to COVID-19 precautions. But here’s the thing. Your team (or organization, or school) needs money to return to...

Taking Your Logo from Poor to Score!

Decorated uniforms and spirit wear are a sign that you mean business when it comes to team sports. You’re playing to win, and cheering on your players. You love your team, whatever the age or level of play, and you’re proud to show it. You need a...

SquadLocker and 8to18 Digital Host Back-to-School Panel Discussion to...

Webinar on Wednesday, June 17, 2020 features digital tactics and tools to keep your school community engaged and safe in COVID-19 era while boosting spirit and funding

The Perfect Uniform, One at a Time

Here at SquadLocker we love to talk about how sports uniforms build team and individual pride, because it’s true. But what if your uniform is a hand-me-down or a leftover, “decorated” with duct tape? We’re not talking about sand lot ball here, we’re...

Are you missing out on convenient sport uniforms?

We are all accustomed to one-stop shopping these days, and we love the convenience. The fewer places we have to go -- or online sites we have to visit -- to get what we need, the better. Is your SquadLocker store as convenient as it should be for...

SquadLocker Adds Uniforms To Online Stores Just In Time For Hoops...

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The Industry's Fastest Single-Unit Custom Gear Delivery Service

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SquadLocker Announces 2019 Fall Sports Survey Results

Thanks to all our Fall Sports store admins who participated in our recent end-of-season survey. Customer input is invaluable to letting us know how we're doing, and what we can do to improve in the coming year!

SquadLocker Could Be Your Single Source For All Your Sports Equipment...

If you’re the athletic director for a school system, or otherwise responsible for the logistics of your school’s sports initiatives, you’re undoubtedly aware of just how much of a hassle sourcing gear and merchandise can be. The more teams your...

Fundraising Through SquadLocker

SquadLocker isn’t just the best source for high-quality, branded gear from leading professional manufacturers. It’s also provides a really easy way to make some extra money for your team by explicitly selling items for the sake of fundraising....

6 Tools for a Stress-Free Registration Season

It’s that time again. Spring is rapidly approaching so it’s time that you start planning for your team’s preseason, and ordering your custom team gear should definitely make that list.

Fundraising and Sponsorship Tips, Tricks & Ideas

Your store at SquadLocker can be personalized in many different ways. Sure you can get logos created or modified, you can choose the colors you want, you can personalize all of the gear and you can even make sure certain mandatory safety items are...

Spirit Wear & The 6 Pillars of League Fundraising

This is a guest post from Jay Whitehead of LeagueNetwork Magazine. Here are two facts that are always front and center in conversations with youth team or league managers. First, 80% of youth league managers tell us at LeagueNetwork Magazine that...

SquadLocker Team Gear: Not Just For The Big Leagues Any More

Maybe it sounds over-ambitious, but at SquadLocker, we're not simply trying to build a good -or even great- team gear store. We believe we could change how custom apparel is ordered everywhere, in every field. Right now, we offer a truly...

Video: How SquadLocker has made things easier for coaches and...

How SquadLocker has made things easier for coaches and administrators.

The SquadLocker Difference #3: Establishing a TeamLocker™ Close Date

The SquadLocker Difference: This 8 part series details the ways SquadLocker is the best online store for team gear and apparel. For part 3, we dive into the ability to set the launch and close date of your TeamLocker™ online store.

The SquadLocker Difference #2: Instant Stores for Athletes

The SquadLocker Difference: Instantaneous TeamLocker™ Store Launch

The Results Are In!! Come See for Yourself Why SquadLocker Fans Are...

We are constantly asking ourselves “How are we doing? And how can we improve the online experience of TeamLocker™ for coaches, administrators, parents, and customers?” Each day, we ask those questions of our growing base of loyal customers as we...

The SquadLocker Difference #1: Check Out the GearMatching Selector

The SquadLocker Difference: World’s Best Gear Matching Selector Who Benefits? Coaches, League Organizers, Parent Volunteers, and Athletes

An Industry Viewpoint: Disruptive Innovation for Team Apparel

Innovation is altering consumer behavior in every industry across the globe. Entire industry sectors, led by e-commerce catalysts Amazon, Netflix, Uber, and AirBnB, have transformed how customers and companies interact. Competitors must innovate or...

SquadLocker will Offer Sport Specific Training Guides!

The 4 Major Benefits of Switching to Online, Team Sports Fundraising

No matter the size of your team, team sports fundraising has become a crucial component to many teams' yearly budgets. While bake sales and raffles may build camaraderie, teams cannot rely on the amount of money generated through this type of...

Why Build SquadLocker, When There is a Team Dealer on Every Corner?

Starting a business is never easy. It takes capital, dedicated employees who are willing to trust your vision and most of all, acceptance of risk and the acceptance that sometimes even the best laid plans don't go according to plan. So please allow...

A School Team Sports Fundraising Checklist

So you’ve been put in charge of fundraising for your high school sports team. Now what? It’s not always the most desirable job. Sports fundraising can be a headache for organizers; you have to choose a fundraising method, mobilize volunteers, and...

Fan Shops: A Team Sports Fundraising Trend for 2013

Fundraising has long been a staple of team sports. Especially now, as budgets get tighter, school teams, college teams, and youth leagues all could use a little extra money to support their athletes and give them a great playing experience....