About 45 minutes before the College of the Ozarks volleyball team's match on Friday, a man walked in with a box of new uniforms.
Head coach Stacy Muckenthaler said she didn't know what they'd look like. All she knew was that they wouldn't have a Nike swoosh.
The College of the Ozarks volleyball team played its first games since the school announced it would "choose its country over company" and remove all athletic uniforms purchased from Nike that contain the brand's famous swoosh emblem.
The private Christian college of about 1,500 students announced in a news release Wednesday that student-athletes will no longer wear the brand in response to the company's 30th-anniversary ad campaign featuring former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.