Western Michigan Sunseeker

There is an academic paper, and maybe a good magazine essay, lurking at the heart of this next post.

Teams always have swapped t-shirts and other bits of uniform at the end of Sunrayce, sometimes before. It happens without announcement, without rules, and almost everyone does it. Something about the event just begs for this exchange, to preserve something of the diversity of teams, people, and sometimes participating countries.

I got this from Western Michigan's Sunseeker team, probably in Sunrayce 99. As a staffer, I had lots of the same official polo available to swap for team shirts.