The Garments of Champions

Many of you have seen the stylish T-shirt designs that Poly sports teams boast are worn all over the campus. The championship basketball shirts and the new soccer logo are all brainchildren of Fresh, a Poly alumnus who is making his living designing T-shirts with his company, Fresh Teez.
Fresh works with his partner to design creative T-shirts with a special flare. Fresh also coaches for the varsity softball team, and is dubbed “Team Mom” by the players and head coach.
He is proud to be able to work with such promising athletes. “[I love] being a positive male influence for the girls,” he said.
Fresh graduated from Poly in 1986, and from there began pursuing his dream. “When I saw the freshman head coach,” said Fresh, “and I saw the uniforms we had received for the amount of money that we paid, I said, “I know I can do better than that.’” From there, he collaborated with friends in the silk-screening business and was able to buy the t-shirts wholesale.
Fresh considers his greatest designing feat to be when he designed the T-shirts for the track team’s back-to-back state titles. “The whole track team was wearing my shirt,” he boasts. “I was looking at the Gazette like I do after a sporting event…and I said, ‘Hey! That’s my shirt!’”
Spending so much of his time after graduation at Poly has been a very surreal experience, Fresh says. “Every once in a while you’re in the hallways and you get that little flashback from when you were in high school… It’s like, ‘Man, I remember this moment.’”
He appreciates all the support he receives from the large and loving Poly family, and considers it an honor to design T-shirts for Poly, giving his company the memorable slogan: Fresh Teez, the garments of champions.