Compound Sportswear

One Flag, One Store

Purdue Wrestling, Boilermaker RTC and the local kids club under a single banner — and a single storefront a parent can buy from once, with their wallet already out.

Prepared for
Tanner Lipsett / Brian
Purdue Wrestling · Boilermaker RTC
Prepared by
Cliff Fretwell / Max Mejia
Compound Sportswear
Date
September 2026
2teams
One storefront
100'sfamilies
Increased audience — gear for youth athletes and parents

Built by wrestling people who were tired of teamwear chaos.

Nineteen years running a wrestling club, fifteen building the apparel company we wanted to order from. Combat sports first, cut and sewn to order — no blanks on a rack.

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

A design team, not a queue

An agency-level design team that understands branding and the design process, working only in teamwear. Your account sits with one of them and you talk to them directly in our proofing software — not through a rep relaying notes to a factory.

One person who owns your dates

Max Mejia is your point of contact from art through delivery, copied on every proof, with your dates as what the schedule is built backwards from.

Two dates that can't move.

October 17 is the roster release and preseason party — the Purdue refresh has to be live when that room empties. October 26 is the first parent and kids meeting for the club, with singlets on a table to try on. Everything below is worked backwards from those two.

Run 1 — Purdue refresh live Store refreshed and live for the Oct 17 roster release and preseason party
Thu, Sep 18
Store report to Tanner — every item that sold, with images
Wed, Sep 24
Keep / cut decisions back to us — top sellers stay
Fri, Sep 26
Mock-ups of the new pieces
Fri, Oct 3
Art approved on the refreshed line
Fri, Oct 10
Private test link — you walk it before anyone else sees it
Fri, Oct 17
Store live · announced from the stage at the preseason party
Run 2 — Boilermaker RTC & kids club Club section live before Oct 17, samples in hand for the Oct 26 parent meeting
Mon, Sep 22
Max curates the club teamwear list — singlet, warm-ups, backpack, hat
Fri, Sep 26
RTC marks applied — club singlet design out for you to show
Fri, Oct 10
Club section built and tagged, fundraising set per product
Mon, Oct 13
Singlet size kit ships to Brian — youth through adult, return label included
Fri, Oct 17
Club section live alongside the Purdue refresh
Sun, Oct 26
First parent & kids meeting — sizes tried on, store link handed out

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. Off-peak they turn quickly; through the October–November crunch the lead time stretches, so ask us for the real date before you promise one to a parent.

Your concerns, answered.

What we heard
What we do about it
“We're joining forces with the local kids club and pulling it all under the Boilermaker RTC banner — several hundred parents and families. It's a whole new rev stream.”
One flag, one storefront. The club runs as its own section inside the store you already have, so a parent who came for Purdue gear leaves with club gear too. Everybody from Matt Ramos down to a five-year-old is buying off the same link, and there is no licensing or royalty on the RTC side — the design cycle is yours and ours alone, with nobody to wait on for approval.
“How can we navigate that so the RTC gear going out gets a bigger clip? With the Purdue stuff we were doing something like five dollars an item.”
Set per product, not per store. Fundraising is configured item by item, so club and RTC pieces carry a heavier return than the Purdue fan items without touching those prices. No royalty coming off the RTC side means more of it stays with you, and the club audience puts more buyers through the same storefront. It all lands in one entity — one check, with the store report splitting out where every dollar came from.
“Can you send singlet samples, youth through adult? I don't care what they look like — just so they can size them at that meeting before they buy.”
Size kit ships to Brian by October 13. Youth through adult, with a return label in the box. It sits on the table at the October 26 meeting so a parent sizes their kid in person, then orders off the live link that night instead of guessing later.
“Are we refreshing everything for this year? I'd say keep a couple of the top sellers — if it's sold a ton, let's not get rid of it.”
The report decides, not a guess. You get every item that sold with the actual images — cmpsw-store-report.netlify.app/dashboard — and you mark keep or cut. Last season was the trial run; this one gets built on what your fans actually bought rather than what any of us assumed they would.
“A lot of our fans appreciate getting the same design at different price points — you've got the people who have to have the Nike stuff, and the people it isn't important to.”
Good, better, best, on the same design. One graphic direction offered at a premium and a middle price, so the fan who wants the top-end piece and the parent buying on a budget both walk away with something. We keep the SKU count tight on purpose — a wall of product sells less than a curated dozen.

The next thirty days.

Two launches, one storefront. Nothing here waits on a licensor, and every date below is set by your October 17 and October 26.

01

Store report to Tanner

Every item that sold last season with the actual product images, so keep-or-cut is decided on sales rather than memory.

CompoundSent — Sep 18
02

RTC and club logos to us

The marks you use on the club side, plus anything the kids club needs to carry. Already sent to Max — he has them.

PurdueReceived
03

Keep / cut on the Purdue line

Mark the report: what stays because it sells, what goes to make room for the refresh.

PurdueBy Sep 24
04

Club teamwear list curated

Max builds the list the youth clubs actually order — singlet, warm-up top and bottom, backpack, hat.

CompoundSep 22
05

Mock-ups back

The refreshed Purdue pieces plus a club singlet in RTC marks you can show at the meeting.

CompoundSep 26
06

Fundraising set per product

Club and RTC items tagged separately from Purdue fan items and set at their own return, so the report splits cleanly even though it pays to one entity.

CompoundWith the build
07

Private test link

Both sections live on a private link. You walk it as a parent would and tell us what to change before anyone sees it.

CompoundOct 10
08

Singlet size kit to Brian

Youth through adult, return label in the box, in hand well before the parent meeting.

CompoundShips Oct 13
09

Store live

Purdue refresh and the club section go live together. Announced from the stage that night at the preseason party — we supply the graphic and the copy.

TogetherOct 17
10

Parent & kids meeting

Sizes on the table, link on the screen. Parents size their kid, then order that night off the same store.

PurdueOct 26

Who to call

Project & timelines
Design & brand
Team support
Compound Sportswear866.267.5955

Turnkey teamwear & spirit wear stores.

Four ways to put gear in front of your families — 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 athlete who joins mid-season and finds every store closed — and to the parent who missed the window.

Always openProduced per order, 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. 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.

Personalization

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

Your marks, held to your standard — not ours.

Your logo and your colors are the club's equity. Our job is to reproduce them exactly the same way on a uniform, a screen-printed tee and an embroidered hat — and to prove it on paper before anything is cut.

Senior-level design teamTeamwear only

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 colors 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 uniform 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.

No vector? Not a problemWe rebuild it

If your art was created by someone else and you don't have the vector files, 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.

Production turn times.

Production clocks start on approved art. These are commitments, not estimates.

ProductionBulk orderOnline shop
Screen print & DTF
14 + 5Days
14 + 5–7Days
With embroidery
21 + 5Days
21 + 5–7Days
With sublimation
25 + 5Days
25 + 5–7Days

Bulk orders

Items ship from their production house as they are completed, so a bulk order can arrive in more than one shipment. Add 5 days for shipping to reach you.

Online shops

Every order is held until all production is complete, then sorted, bagged and shipped — individually to each customer, or in one shipment to your main contact. The extra 5–7 days covers that sorting and shipping.

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.

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

What we do, at scale

19yrs
Running Compound
Wrestling Club
15yrs
Producing premium
custom sportswear
1,000's
Satisfied coaches
& boosters
100's
Team stores launched &
fulfilled monthly