Lancaster High School (Texas) trades Nike for Adidas

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Posted By: Jeff Fisher February 28, 2016

The Texas high school football apparel wars continue.

Earlier this week, the Lancaster Independent School District announced it was signing a deal with Adidas after using Nike for years. The announcement was made Lancaster head coach Chris Gilbert on Twitter.

How Lancaster, a longtime lover of Nike, agreed to an apparel deal with Adidas https://t.co/8KU60docEG pic.twitter.com/KVSF0WrXfQ
— Michael Florek (@michaelflorek) February 26, 2016

Earlier this year, we reported that the Frisco Independent School District was going all Nike in 2016 with an exclusive million dollar deal for all four schools in the district.

Related: Frisco signs million dollar deal with Nike

“Nike was great and their stuff was cool, but what Adidas has offered our program was just first class,” Gilbert told the Dallas Morning News. “I’m just excited about their investment in our kids and our coaching staff, what they can do for us on Friday nights in the fall.”

Gilbert didn’t reveal the size of Lancaster’s Adidas deal.

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Jeff is an award-winning journalist and expert in the field of high school sports, underscored with his appearance on CNBC in 2010 to talk about the big business of high school football in America.Jeff turned to his passion for high school football into an entrepreneurial venture called High School Football America, a digital media company focused on producing original high school sports content for radio, television and the internet.Jeff is co-founder and editor-in-chief of High School Football America, a partner with NFL Play Football.