Midlothian Miners Wrestling Club practice
Midlothian Miners Wrestling Club × Compound Sportswear

Custom Teamwear
Partnership

Built for Midlothian Miners Wrestling Club — a USA Wrestling Top 50 club, and one volunteer who should not have to carry the gear alone.

IntegrityServingTeamworkExcellence The Miners' values, and the standard this gear has to live up to — build generational leaders through the sport of wrestling.
Prepared for
Kate Wenger / Heath Eslinger
Kennon Kincaid
Prepared by
Cliff Fretwell / Max Mejia
Compound Sportswear
Date
August 2026
150athletes
Preseason
200athletes
In season
125athletes
Freestyle

Built by wrestling people who got tired of the chaos.

Our wrestling club is nineteen years old. Four seasons in, we were still fighting an industry running on eight-week lead times with a sales rep parked between us and the factory — so fifteen years ago we built the apparel company we wanted to order from. Combat sports first, everything cut and sewn to order. No pre-printed blanks on a rack, which is why a Miners store can't sell a medium it doesn't have.

Programs we currently outfit
Oklahoma State/Northern Iowa/Oregon State/Arizona State/North Carolina/NC State/Nebraska

One designer, not a queue

Three in-house designers; teamwear is all they do. One of them owns your account and answers you directly inside our proofing software — not through a rep who forwards it to a factory and waits two days for a reply.

One person who owns your dates

Max Mejia stays on the project from art through delivery. He is copied on every proof, and the two dates that matter — October 10 and December 13 — are what the whole schedule is built backwards from.

The "proof" is in your mock up.

Every detail in a real-world design proof before it is made.

Midlothian Miners men's Pro Series singlet, front
Miners — frontWhite and gold yoke, gold binding, the script across the chest.
Midlothian Miners men's singlet, side
Miners — sideThe side panel and the back edge of the yoke.
Lady Miners women's Pro Series singlet, front
Lady Miners — frontSame build, fuchsia binding, a true women's pattern.
Lady Miners women's singlet, back
Lady Miners — backThe striped back panel and the M shield.

Turnkey teamwear & spirit wear stores.

You run two stores today. We'd run four — and only one of them is any work for you, because we build all of them.

Teamwear storeCompetition & performance

The tiered kit you already sell: singlets, fight shorts, warm-ups, quarter-zips, performance tops. Fully sublimated and cut to order after close, so nothing sells out mid-window.

10–14 daysOpens on your registration cadence
Spirit wear storeFriends, family & the sideline

The lower price point: tees, fleece, alternate practice shorts, plus workout, training and travel apparel. Retail mills, not custom manufacturing, so the cost lands where parents expect it.

10–14 daysRuns alongside the teamwear store
Print-on-demand storeThe one nobody else runs

A curated shortlist of products we keep live all year and fulfill weekly. This is the answer to the kid who falls in love with the sport in December and finds every store closed — and to the parent who missed the window.

Always openFulfilled weekly, year round
Fundraiser storeSame store, different math

Any of the above can be configured to return margin to the club on every order. Families buy gear they wanted anyway and the program funds mats, entry fees or travel off the same transaction.

Your callSet per store, per season

How the boxes get to people

Direct athlete fulfillment. Every order ships to the family that placed it, with their name on it. No collecting money, no chasing sizes, no sorting a pallet in a school lobby, no parent texting you in February about a hoodie. If you'd rather have one shipment for a team handout, we sort and bag it by athlete before it leaves our building — you hand out bags, not boxes.

Custom bundles

Package items together at a set price so a parent buys one thing instead of six. Build a Competition Bundle that matches what you already expect of the top team, and a lighter Rookie Bundle for a first-year family who isn't ready to spend. The bundle is how you set the expectation without having to enforce it in an email.

Personalization

Available on every fully sublimated product for a small upcharge — names on singlets, weight classes on jackets, class year on warm-ups. It's added at the store, priced at the store, and printed into the garment rather than heat-pressed on afterward, so it doesn't peel.

Two we've already built.

Your marks, held to your standard — not ours.

The Miners badge, the pickaxe, that black and that gold are the club's equity. Our job is to reproduce them exactly the same way on a singlet, a screen-printed tee and an embroidered hat — and to prove it on paper before anything is cut.

Senior designers onlyThree in-house

Teamwear is the only thing our design team does — all day, for thousands of teams a year. Your account is assigned to one of them and stays there. You will not be handed to whoever is free.

Color is pinned, not eyeballedAcross every process

Your black and your gold get locked to a value at the start of the account and applied to every product after that — sublimation, screen print, DTF and embroidery. One reference, so a hoodie ordered in November matches a singlet ordered in August.

Proofs carry measurementsInches, not guesswork

Every proof ships with actual dimensions, placement callouts and color callouts on the art — so "is that the same size as the other one?" is answered on the page instead of in a three-email thread. This is the single thing most vendors don't send, and it's why our revision counts stay low.

No vector? Not a problemWe rebuild it

Kate flagged that the singlet lettering was created new by a local vendor and there's no vector art for it. We redraw it as clean vector from whatever you can send — a screenshot is enough to work from. It comes back matching, and the files are yours, not locked to us.

One loop, not eighteenDirect to the designer

You're in the proofing software with the designer who is drawing it. No sales rep relaying notes to a factory and back. That's the difference between two days per revision and two hours.

Show up in teamwear they'll remember.

All of it is public on our site. Send it to a parent, a board member, or anyone who wants to see what they're buying before they commit.

Two dates that can't move. Here's the schedule that hits them.

You named October 10 for preseason competition and December 13 for the winter tournament — the one where, in Heath's words, the gear has almost never been in. We start at those dates and count backwards.

Run 1 — Preseason Gear in hand for Sat, Oct 10
Fri, Aug 28
Art approved & store opens
Fri, Sep 4
Store closes
Wed, Sep 30
Sorted & shipped
Sat, Oct 10
Preseason — 10 days of buffer
Run 2 — Folkstyle Gear in hand for Sun, Dec 13
Mon, Oct 19
Store opens with registration
Sun, Nov 1
Store closes
Wed, Dec 2
Shipped
Sun, Dec 13
Winter tournament — 11 days of buffer

Filler orders — you are not locked to one order a season

Once a design is in production we take smaller filler runs on the same art with no new setup charge — a late registration, a kid who grew two sizes, a coach who wants the jacket after all. Off-peak they turn around quickly; through the October–November crunch the lead time stretches, so ask us for the real date before you promise one.

Your concerns, answered.

Pulled straight from the call. Where the honest answer is "put your hands on it and decide," we've said that instead of talking around it.

What you told us
What we do about it
“It can take 8 to 10 weeks, and we still don't have all our gear at the first tournament.”
Five weeks from the day the store closes. Close September 4, gear lands October 9 — ahead of the October 10 competition.
“The fan store isn't an open-and-close type of shop. Someone falls in love with the sport mid-season and the store's gone.”
A print-on-demand store that never closes. Curated product list, live all year, fulfilled weekly. The December kid gets a hoodie.
“What happens when we need more after the first order goes in?”
Filler orders on the same art, no new setup. Late registrations, growth spurts, a coach who wants a jacket. Off-peak they turn around quickly; through the October–November crunch the lead time stretches, so ask us for the real date before you promise one to a parent.
“Getting the stores set up took a lot of legwork. I work a full-time job and this is a volunteer role.”
We build them. Two people here do nothing but build stores. You approve art and give us dates; the store, the product list, the sizing and the test link are ours.
“I'm going to need to prove it — the font size has to be exactly the same, the colors have to be exactly right.”
Proofs ship with measurements. Actual inches, placement and color callouts on the art, so it's checkable on the page rather than by eye.
“I don't have the singlet lettering in vector. Our local vendor created it and I can't give you the files.”
We rebuild it. Send a screenshot; we redraw it as clean vector, matched to what you have now — and you own the files afterward.
“I'd love to get my hands on the singlets. The last ones were thin and see-through, and the chest was cut too low.”
Samples out this week — Youth Large and Adult Small, men's and women's cuts, plus the tri-blend tee. We lengthened our singlet leg two years ago. Judge the fabric and the cut in your hands; we're not going to argue you into it.
“They post gear on the store they can't actually deliver in the right sizes, so people can't order what they want.”
Nothing is pre-made. We cut and sew after the store closes, so there is no blank inventory to run out of. If it's on the store, it gets made.
“T-shirts are one of our greatest marketing tools. Sixty percent of the families at a tournament are wearing Miners gear.”
Tees run bulk — 28 days from approved art, independent of any store. Approve one design, re-run it all season.
“The other guy is local. I can run up there and grab something if I need it.”
We can't be down the road from you — that one is real. What we can be is same-day on email with one name to call, and schedules with enough buffer that nothing depends on a last-minute drive.
“What we don't want to do is switch midstream and have the timing be bad.”
Then don't switch all at once. Run preseason however you planned and let us build the folkstyle store — the wave that has never landed on time. Judge us on that one.

The next seven days.

Nothing here costs you anything or commits the club. It exists so that by the end of next week you can hold the gear, see the design and know the dates — and then decide.

01

Sample pack ships

Youth Large and Adult Small — men's and women's Pro Series singlets, a tri-blend tee, fleece and a fight short. Send us the address and it goes out the same day.

CompoundShips within 24 hrs
02

Send us what art you have

The Miners badge in any format, plus a photo or screenshot of the current singlet front. Missing vector is expected — we'll rebuild it.

KateWhenever it's easy
03

First proofs back

Singlet, warm-up and tee mocked up in Miners black and gold, with dimensions and color callouts on the art. Within 48 hours of receiving files.

Compound48 hours from art
04

Build the product list

Twenty minutes on a call: which pieces go on the teamwear store, what goes in the bundles, which tee you want, and whether the spirit store runs as a fundraiser.

TogetherAny day next week
05

Private test store

A working Miners store, not a mockup. You walk it as a parent would and tell us what to change. Nothing publishes until you say so.

CompoundEnd of next week
06

You decide

Gear in hand, proofs on screen, store link live, dates on paper. If any of it falls short, you've lost a week and a shipping label.

MinersNo obligation

Who to call

Project & timelines
Design & brand
Team support
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How fast — and, more importantly, from when the clock starts.

Most vendors quote a number without telling you what starts it. Here is ours, with the trigger named. Every schedule on this page is built off these clocks and nothing else.

5Weeks

Online stores — teamwear, spirit wear, pop-up shops

Clock starts: the day the store closes — not the day it opens

Because the clock starts at close, the length of the shopping window is entirely yours to set Five weeks is a commitment, not an estimate — it holds as long as the open and close dates are locked up front and the store is not extended.

48Hours

Art proofs

Clock starts: the moment we have your files

First proof back within two business days, and most go out the same day. Revisions come back same-day. Send art Monday morning and you can be approving a proof Monday afternoon.

What we need from you to start a clock

  • Your logo files, in whatever form you have them
  • The dates that can't move
  • An approval on the proof

What we never need from you

  • Collected sizes — the store does that
  • Collected money — the store does that too
  • A garage full of boxes to sort and hand out
19yrs
Running Compound
Wrestling Club
15yrs
Producing premium
custom sportswear
1,000's
Satisfied coaches
& boosters
100's
Team stores launched &
fulfilled monthly