Upward Sports

So that's one success story.

Another one is Upward Sports.

I don't know if you're familiar with Upward.

We're the ad agency for them.

But I can understand it from the race organizers.

I mean, we buy medals here at Upward Sports that people can give away at the end of the season within their...

Upward Sports, basketball, football, soccer leagues, that type of thing.

They cost money.

They take a lot of times when you're buying 40,000 like that, they take months to produce and they might not even have time to have made another one if they wanted to at that type of scale.

And so I've seen these laser cutters before.

You know, with Upward Sports, we, um, produce a lot of apparel for our sporting, uh, things out there, so about 225,000 kids play Upward each year.

I've been in the factories where we make all of our jerseys, and a lot of those are sublimated, and without getting too much into the we- weeds of that, you, you, um, print, you basically print like you would a, a piece of paper onto fabric with a sublimation machine, and then they take that from a big roll and they cut it out with a laser instead of, like, scissors or any type of cutting device.

And so that's the same thing they're doing with some of these singlets with how precise they are with cutting the seams of that or the ventilation holes or things like that.

We also have Travis Bond.

They are both part of the marketing team of Upward Sports.

It's one of just the largest sports ministries in the US, and they are also the hosts of the Kind of Fast podcast, which I just listened to.

It's great.

And so tell us just a little bit more about the ministry and how you got involved.

Yeah.

So Upward Running is actually Upward Sports' very first adult sport, which is really exciting.

We launched into the adult world about a year ago, I wanna say, for running.