According to epic soccer, Soccer uniforms started emerging in the Victorian era where players wore white shirts and pants and also colorful caps or scarves to tell each team apart.

“We have three what we call kits so our uniforms are in the pieces so we have an all-black uniform a purple uniform and white uniforms,” girls soccer varsity head coach Sara Fjell said, “They say BEAST on the front which is something that’s new and they are all Adidas because we have the Adidas contract and we have both long sleeve and short sleeve.”

In 2014-15 the soccer team got the uniforms they were using before they got these new ones this year. The reason they had to wait for five years to be able to get new uniforms is the budget rotation.

The budget rotation is something that most sports do to be able to afford and buy uniforms equally for every departments of sports. They rotate after every five years and this year was the soccer team’s turn to get uniforms.

“For every varsity sport, you are on a 4 to a 5-year cycle for uniforms so we were just actually up in the cycle so it’s our year to purchase uniforms,” Fjell said.

They don’t have to pay for the uniforms because the money comes from the athletic department and that money is what is used to purchase the clothes and because they don’t pay for the them, they don’t get to keep them.

The players on the team for the next years can use them, too until the next budget rotation. Soccer players such as Izasha Giraud and Alyssa Anselmo are excited because of the new uniforms.

“Yeah, actually I am. I saw them in Fjell’s room and I was like wow those are really nice,” Giraud said. “I don’t think the uniform makes the player but I mean it definitely feels good to like be able to  show off the New Jerseys.”

Since they have three pieces now they will be able to rotate their use for uniforms such as pre games, soccer games and school activities, too.

“I like them because they come in three colors instead of two the pattern looks nice and they are very lightweight so it’s easy to move in them but they’re also warm enough for cold weather games,” sophomore Alyssa Anzelmo said.

The old uniforms were white and had a purple number on them. Something that Izasha didn’t like was how the numbers would come off and not every girl had the same jerseys. 

“I like the memories that came along with them and they remind me of my first year of varsity soccer. I don’t like that they were only short sleeve it made the games quite cold,” Anselmo said.