WVU football unveils black alternate uniform for 2024 season
WEST HARRISOWN, WV (WCHS) – Fans were taken aback by West Virginia football’s new black alternate outfit on Thursday.
According to a press release from WVU Athletics, the alternate uniform celebrates the Mountain State’s miners and pays tribute to the legacy of coal. It will be worn on special occasions.
Our staff did a great job with the design and rollout of our traditional complement of uniforms last week. But we wanted to have an alternate that our student-athletes would enjoy and would connect with West Virginians,” WVU Vice President and Director of Athletics Wren Baker said in the news release. “If our football team was going to have a black alternate uniform, we wanted it to tell a story and it mean something to our fans. Every design element of the uniform has been researched, carefully thought out and implemented based on what our designers observed on their visit to the mine.”
The jersey focuses on elements that bring light to the darkness. A key emphasis of miner safety is reflectors which are represented throughout the uniform, the news release said. The numbers on the black jersey are a reflective twill, and the wordmark “West Virginia” and an outline of the state are in white to further bring light and complement the reflective twill.
