{"id":2230,"date":"2019-10-07T16:34:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T16:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2019-10-07T16:34:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T16:34:56","slug":"teamousport-kit-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=2230","title":{"rendered":"#TeamOUSport Kit Launch!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/JUMP.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2244 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/JUMP-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/JUMP-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/JUMP-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/JUMP-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/JUMP-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a>We are delighted to announce that in association with Kitlocker we now have a range of Open University Sport and Fitness branded Nike kit and accessories available for staff and students. This can be purchased through the website below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitlocker.com\/theopenuniversity\" >#TeamOUsport Kitlocker Store<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Group.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2243 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Group-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Group-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Group-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Group-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Group-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Group_IMG_9332.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2242\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Group_IMG_9332-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Group_IMG_9332-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Group_IMG_9332-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Group_IMG_9332-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Group_IMG_9332-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We have introduced this kit to help our staff and student feel part of #TeamOUsport and develop our team identity.\u00a0Open University Sport and Fitness Lecturer Dr Nichola Kentzer, who came up with the idea to develop this kit said:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s important for students to have a strong sense of belonging to their university. The OU is such an amazing place and we want our students to really feel part of the Sport and Fitness team. Face to face universities encourage this sense of identity by having team kit, so why can&#8217;t we have this for our students too? Just because our students are geographically spread it doesn&#8217;t mean they can&#8217;t wear their OU kit with pride, showing others that they are part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_9329.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_9329-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_9329-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_9329-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_9329-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_9329-624x468.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>OU Sport and Fitness team. I can&#8217;t wait to see students sharing pictures of themselves working, training, studying and competing in their kit!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Are you part of #TeamOUsport?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/OU-Kit-3.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2235 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/OU-Kit-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/OU-Kit-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/OU-Kit-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/OU-Kit-3-624x624.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/OU-Kit-3.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We would love to see pictures of you wearing your #TeamOUsport kit in a variety of locations so please share them with us on Twitter (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OU_Sport\" >@OU_Sport<\/a>) using the hashtag #TeamOUsport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce that in association with Kitlocker we now have a range of Open University Sport and Fitness branded Nike kit and accessories available for staff and students. This can be purchased through the website below. #TeamOUsport Kitlocker Store &nbsp; We have introduced this kit to help our staff and student feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teamousport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2248,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions\/2248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}