What is the Deal with HYR T-Shirts?
Since 2017, HYR team names have been an attempt to be fun, sometimes goofy, sometimes educational, and hopefully not boring. We also try extremely hard not to have team names that are the same as a professional team (meaning boring). We have not repeated a team name in over 8 years. The team themes might range from insects to trees to herbs and spices to Broadway musicals and beyond. So we often end up with matches between the “Screaming Zucchini” and the “Justlin’ Jalapenos” or between the “Nutmeg” and the “Peppercorns”. Just roll with it.
Spring 2025 - Olympic Medalists
In the 2025 Spring Soccer Season, the team name theme is Olympic Medalists. Team names range from Simone (Biles) to Jesse (Owens) to Phelps (Michael), etc. The logo itself looks like an olympic medal (or a HYR Medal if you will). Any time we have team names that represent people, we try very hard to show a lot of diversity in gender, race, nationality and so on so that kids playing in the league can see themselves in their team's shirts or the shirts of their opposing teams. As well as the diversity of athletes from other countries, the American athletes included represent a large diversity of heritages just like our country does. We hope this will serve to celebrate some of the kids' and faililes' already favorite athletes and also introduce them to some amazing and unique athletes and their achievements from the past 100 years of the olympic games.
2025 spring sports t-shirt theme - olympic medalists.pdfWinter 2025 - Bugs
In the 2025 Winter Season of Basketball and Futsal, the team name theme will be BUGS! We had such a fun time with all the monster drawings the kids did in the fall, so we had kids draw images again. There were not enough drawings submitted by kids this season, but we used all the ones we got before the December 1st deadline. If the drawing was sent in by a kid, we attributed the drawing to them on the team shirt. If the drawing was not attributed, they the drawing was supplied by HYR.
2025 winter sports t-shirt theme - bugs.pdf
Fall 2024 - Monsters
Since the fall soccer season ended just before Halloween, the theme for the team names and shirts was MONSTERS.
In the summer of 2024, current and former HYR players submitted 95 drawings of monsters. I mean AMAZING drawings of monsters. Did I mention just how amazingly creative and awesome these kids' imaginations are? We were BLOWN AWAY. We took those 95 drawings and made 55 teams out of them plus a referee and a coach shirt. That means that some team shirts have one monster on them with a name like Klermin, Kuquechu, Doom, or G The Majestic Beast! Some other teams have groups of monsters with similar characteristics like all having only one eye (Team "One Eyes"), all being a little weird (Team "Mutants") or one player drawing a monster named "Harry" and another player drawing a monster named "Eyebrows". Of course, the team name is now "Harry Eyebrows". This is one of the best themes of all time. Let’s celebrate the creative brains of our best resource: Our players:
2024 fall soccer t-shirt theme - monsters.pdf
Summer 2024 - Ancient Civilizations
2024 baseball team shirt theme and team shirt pics v1.pdf
Spring 2024 - HYR Eats
hyr 2024 spring soccer t-shirt theme and pictures.pdf
Winter 2024 - HYR Plays
2024 hyr winter sports team name theme description.pdf
Fall 2023 - HYR Invents
2023 hyr fall soccer team name theme description.pdf
Summer 2023 - HYR Outdoors
hyr 2023 baseball t-shirt theme and pictures.pdf
Spring 2023 - HYR Composes
2023 hyr spring soccer team name theme description.pdf
Spring 2022 - HYR Reads
2022 spring hyr team shirt pics.pdf
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Summer 2022 HYR T-shirt Picture Challenge
HYR T-shirt picture challenge: I love being out in the community and seeing kids wearing their HYR shirts. I have reports from families whose kids have accumulated a dozen different HYR team shirts and plot their day on which team to represent: team Hogwarts, Doohickeys, Vegemite, Pop Tarts, Nutmeg, or Spamalot.
So this summer, if you are going someplace interesting in Louisville or beyond, send us a picture of your player rocking a Hammy Sammy shirt at the beach, a Goosebumps at the lake, a Barbaloots in the mountains, a Huevos Rancheros at the pool, or wherever you happen to be going. (Send to [email protected]) We’ll compile and send out the results. Look below to see the first entry: A 2022 Baseball Cheesy Biscuits (Patrick Fitzgerald) and a 2019 Soccer Screamin’ Zucchini (Daughter Riley Fitzgerald) in the Rocky Mountains.
