After lessons, soccer and schoolwork, Summerville Excessive Faculty graduate Collin Dahlman, Class of 2024, stayed up and created his sports activities model, Rise Sports activities.
Dahlman, 18, is a soccer participant dedicated to North Greenville College subsequent 12 months. Along with his ardour for soccer, he’s obsessed with sharing his religion with others.
As a Christian, Dahlman stated he believes it's vital to have the ability to present your religion. He needed to provide this chance to different Christian athletes and this want impressed the creation and title of his model Rise Sports activities.
“I needed to characterize my religion on the sphere,” Dahlman stated. “I simply designed quite a lot of issues, I ended up with crosses, Bible verses and all the things. I didn't inform anybody till I listed the model. Now we’ve got Rise Sports activities.”
Rise Sportswear is primarily geared toward Christian soccer gamers. Merchandise embrace socks and shin guards with crosses, in addition to Rise Sports activities t-shirts.
Dahlman's pal, Kylie Brennan, helped Dahlman pack and ship the orders. She stated he’s obsessed with what he does.
“He actually simply needs to unfold extra love with God and put it up for sale extra towards athletes as a result of that's his mission: to get athletes into sports activities with God,” Brennan stated.
Dahlman stated that whereas his model is geared toward Christians, he hopes everybody will probably be concerned with his merchandise.
“We wish everybody to have the ability to put on them as a result of, frankly, these socks and all the things are prime quality they usually look good,” he stated. “And I really feel like as a Christian, I don't wish to impose my religion on different individuals, however I wish to present that being a Christian is wonderful.”
Dahlman did most of his advertising and marketing and outreach on social media. His model has over 5,000 followers on TikTok and over 1,000 followers on Instagram. He stated Instagram is the first approach to attain native athletes. Nonetheless, TikTok allowed him to succeed in additional throughout the nation.
