Everything Priced To Go: UNLV Earns $50,000 From Apparel Sale

UNLV Clearance Sale Of Outdated Athletic Apparel Nets School $50,000

UNLV on April 18 "held its first clearance sale of athletic apparel and equipment," and UNLV AD Mike Hamrick yesterday said that the sale "netted $50,000," according to Rob Miech of the LAS VEGAS SUN. The athletic department "received a nice windfall for its summer-school program" from the sale of the outdated apparel. Hamrick: "We put all of that into scholarships for our student-athletes for summer school." Hamrick said that the athletic department has "received checks for specific gear after the huge sale, which was staged because all of UNLV's sports teams have switched to Nike." A 30-foot-high storage room "in the back of the Lied Athletic Complex was stocked full of adidas, Russell, New Balance, and other name-brand apparel and equipment." Hamrick said that "more than half of those items were sold." The rest "will be held over, along with other accumulated gear, for another clearance sale in a couple of years" (LASVEGASSUN.com, 4/27).