Youth league, adult clothing

jetdog9 said:

Any idea what vendor they are using?

Sizing can be an issue for kids racing for sure, while most NICA teams are buying products that come in adult sizes, you get some younger kids (especially middle school devo, etc) that would fit better in youth sizing. Most vendors do offer some custom product with youth sizes, but as the league folks in your case pointed out, there can be issues with minimums.

In a lot of cases, a 2XS adult jersey is going to be pretty darn small and might fit the bill, though.

Our company Hyperthreads has youth sizing in a couple models and no minimum requirements (although volume and pricing affect each other in most cases of course). What league is it?

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It's New England Youth Cycling and they are using Craft. It looks like they are going with a standard jersey for the league which then gets customized with a team logo and they are available down to an XS, which according the size chart is a 33-34.5" chest for mens and 31" chest for womens. My 10 year old son has a 26.5" chest.

I guess I just don't understand why you would offer adult XXL jerseys but not something appropriately sized for kids? They've got $150 adult insulated jackets and $200 adult parkas with league branding, but nothing kid sized! Just get some kids sized tech tees printed up, they're only doing six 1 or 2 lap races throughout the season they really don't need riding jerseys.

All I got from the league director is that jerseys are required for racing, no jersey, no race! For my kids' competitive ski team the uniforms are optional and they actually changed supplier at the last minute when they realized the first choice didn't offer jackets small enough for half the team members.