March 4, 2010
PRINCESS ANNE, Md. - In an ever changing world of technology, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) tries to stay on top of the trends. The Department of Athletics is proud to announce four new ways to keep up with the Hawks while supporting the school. UMES has launched two new websites and has two new supplemental sites for Hawk students, fans and alumni.
The first of these new endeavors is a new online apparel store. Hosted by Black Lab Apparel & Promotions, a subsidiary of Wind-lock Corporation, the company has provided UMES with a large store of goods you can purchase to support the Hawks. While some products are imprinted, many are embroidered goods that the Hawk faithful can order in a variety of sizes and colors. The site will constantly feature new inventory and designs and will soon offer shoppers a chance to have one of several different University logos put on their garment.
Located in Leesport, PA Black Lab offers promotional services to a wide variety of market segments, including educational, construction, service and hospitality. Offering fully customizable logoed apparel, Black Lab's in-house services ensure accuracy and quick turn-around.
Additionally, Black Lab Apparel & Promotions offers turnkey e-commerce stores to better serve its clients as well as their employees, customers, students, alumni or fans. They offer integrating services such as embroidery, screen printing, and logo digitizing with some of the latest apparel designs and promotional items. Black Lab Apparel & Promotions is proud to represent the University of Maryland Eastern Shore as its on-line partner.
The store can be found at umes.blacklabapparel.com
Several months prior to the launch of the official store, Athletics debuted the Official Hawks Specialty Store. This site, located from the main page of the athletics site, umeshawks.com, offers the Hawk fan a chance to pick up the latest items they may have seen on campus. Ranging from promotional t-shirts, stuffed Hawk mascots, posters, media guides or wall clings, the store orders are filled directly by the UMES Athletics staff. The store is also the online home of UMES varsity letterman replica jackets where fans can order a modified letterman jacket similar to what UMES athletes earn for their play.
The specialty store can be found at umeshawks.com/store/specialty/
The Hawks have also had a third store even longer. The UMES photo store is one-stop shopping to order a photo of your favorite Hawk athlete. Parents, family, friends and fans can select from thousands of photos taken by official UMES photographers. They can be ordered in different sizes as prints or can be framed and matted to suit your tastes.
The photo galleries allow fans who are unable to attend games, a great opportunity to keep up with the action. UMES understands our fans aren't always able to attend our games or events and we wanted to make sure they keep up with the Hawks whether it's from one of our stories or visually with the photo galleries. Hawks fans from around the world can relive Hawks moments with these online photo galleries. Log on to umeshawks.com and click on the photo galleries button.
All three stores accept card cards.
Finally this year, in an event to be more environmentally friendly, UMES will stop the printing of media guides and create on-line virtual guides. Each of the school's 14 teams will have a virtual guide created for them that features audio, video and full color pages. These guides allow the Hawk faithful to learn more about their favorite Hawk teams.
Log on to umeshawks.com and click on the `Hawk Online Guides' logo. Or go directly to the site by logging on to hawkathleticguides.com
"We hope all the Hawk fans, friends and alumni will explore these great new features," said G. Stan Bradley Assistant Director of Athletics for External Affairs. "It is important for us to have a great on-line presence so our fans can not only follow their favorite teams, but show their support."
