Northwestern NIL Store Officially Opens for Wildcat Athletes
3/8/2023 11:00:00 AM | NIL
The Northwestern NIL Store is every fan's one-stop-shop to score officially licensed NIL Wildcat apparel and directly support their favorite student-athletes.
CHICAGO – The Northwestern NIL Store powered by Campus Ink is officially open for business, featuring custom and co-licensed merchandise sold for Northwestern student-athletes.
The Northwestern NIL Store is every fan's one-stop-shop to score officially licensed NIL Wildcat apparel and directly support their favorite student-athletes.
"We are thrilled to partner with an innovative company in Campus Ink that prioritizes assisting student-athletes in building their brands and optimizing their opportunities in the ever-changing world of name, image, and likeness," said Executive Senior Associate Athletics Director Tyler Jones. "We are committed to delivering NIL opportunities for our passionate fan base to connect, support, and engage with our incredible student-athletes through unique and innovative methods."
This is just the start. The store opened with men's basketball players, and will continue to onboard athletes. Additionally, the Campus Ink team will create unique core products and custom merch drops, while also adding jerseys at a later date.
Each student-athlete's locker room includes a collection of core products which feature personalized names and numbers for applicable athletes.
In addition to Northwestern, the NIL Store network of schools includes Illinois, Indiana, Purdue, Penn State, Michigan State, Duke, Virginia Tech, Syracuse, UConn, Iowa State, Florida State, SDSU, DePaul and FGCU, with many more stores currently under construction.
ABOUT CAMPUS INK AND THE NIL STORE
Backed by Mark Cuban, Campus Ink expanded into the Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) space in 2021 and launched the NIL Store, which serves as a merchandising solution for student-athletes and schools. The NIL Store operates with the firm belief that every student-athlete has an opportunity to capitalize on their NIL. Campus Ink was founded in 1947 on the campus of the University of Illinois and was reimagined in 2015 with an office in downtown Chicago and a production facility in Urbana, Il where the company handles all of its own production and fulfillment.
The Northwestern NIL Store is every fan's one-stop-shop to score officially licensed NIL Wildcat apparel and directly support their favorite student-athletes.
"We are thrilled to partner with an innovative company in Campus Ink that prioritizes assisting student-athletes in building their brands and optimizing their opportunities in the ever-changing world of name, image, and likeness," said Executive Senior Associate Athletics Director Tyler Jones. "We are committed to delivering NIL opportunities for our passionate fan base to connect, support, and engage with our incredible student-athletes through unique and innovative methods."
This is just the start. The store opened with men's basketball players, and will continue to onboard athletes. Additionally, the Campus Ink team will create unique core products and custom merch drops, while also adding jerseys at a later date.
Each student-athlete's locker room includes a collection of core products which feature personalized names and numbers for applicable athletes.
In addition to Northwestern, the NIL Store network of schools includes Illinois, Indiana, Purdue, Penn State, Michigan State, Duke, Virginia Tech, Syracuse, UConn, Iowa State, Florida State, SDSU, DePaul and FGCU, with many more stores currently under construction.
ABOUT CAMPUS INK AND THE NIL STORE
Backed by Mark Cuban, Campus Ink expanded into the Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) space in 2021 and launched the NIL Store, which serves as a merchandising solution for student-athletes and schools. The NIL Store operates with the firm belief that every student-athlete has an opportunity to capitalize on their NIL. Campus Ink was founded in 1947 on the campus of the University of Illinois and was reimagined in 2015 with an office in downtown Chicago and a production facility in Urbana, Il where the company handles all of its own production and fulfillment.