How to find Custom T-Shirts for your Team

A few years ago, I was put in charge of getting the team shirts made for my kid's soccer team. I was the only parent brave enough to step up to the challenge and I immediately made the mistake of polling the team of bouncing 7 year olds for suggestions on a team name. After much hoopla and more than a few tears, a name and mascot were decided upon. At the time, I didn't know square one about custom shirt screen printing, and I was only mildly confident that I could find a way to accurately depict the Broomfield Running Fish on 15 little shirts, and one big one for Coach Kevin. I was lucky enough that we had a little artist on the team who knew exactly what that fish should look like, so I had a design, but I still ended up paying a king's ransom getting the small order of shirts printed up. The t-shirts were good, just expensive.

Either way, since then, I've become the official outfitter of all the teams my kids make their way onto, and I've learned that you can get just about anything you want custom printed onto a t-shirt—or just about any article of clothing for that matter—and it doesn't have to cost you an arm and a leg either. After a couple of seasons, I finally discovered the online custom screen printer route. It's absolutely amazing.

I've never been a creative genius, so I always have to get some t-shirt design ideas from the other parents beforehand (I've learned my lesson about asking too much of the kids), but I'm always surprised at how easy it is from there. I go online and I'm able to upload my t-shirt design right there and get to work. I've never had a problem with finding the colors or sizes that I need, and I've usually got the whole order done and ready to go within a half hour or so. As long as you're comfortable with getting your design into an electronic file, it is literally a matter of pressing a few buttons and you've got an order of custom printed shirts headed your way within a couple of days. It didn't break the team bank either, which is the best part, considering my kids play on every kind of team imaginable. I would guess I've probably got more shirt printing needs than the average guy, but I've found a way to make