Player Practice Gear Laundry

We pass out laundry bags and write players name and number on them. They are responsible for making sure it makes it into the laundry pile. We try to wash once a at least once a week. Our HC, JV HC, and our manager do a lot of the washing. Most of it is done on Thursdays/Friday mornings.

Last year we had a player decide not to wash his stuff and had a skin rash run rampant
through the JV lockeroom - trying to avoid that again.

We do not do laundry for the players.

Durable nylon Mesh bags with a drawstring. You can find them just about anywhere, we have different brands - champion and random off brand bags.

We wash players shorts, shirts, and girdles everyday. Rotate it between offensive, defensive, and freshmen staff. We only wash practice jerseys and pants once a week, usually on Wednesday.

We use the Adams' laundry straps. www.bsnsports.com/adams-single-latch-laundry-belts

Where I'm at now we use these little laundry loops. It's like a strap with a clip on it. Coaches do the laundry. We was their chit every day.

In the past when I've only given out a jersey (shorts, VB knee pads and girdles were the property of the players) they just dropped it in a cart and we washed them on Thursdays. The loop would've been cool and I could've put their other stuff on it.

laundry loop, everyday.

We collected practice laundry every Thursday after practice when players got their game uniforms and we'd wash it that evening.  Coaches always washed it because we weren't lucky enough to have a manager or custodian who was competent to do it.

I don't trust players to take that stuff home and wash it on their own. There are always kids who'd lose it, forget it, or somehow manage to damage it and it turns into a cluster.  For t-shirts and shorts they were on their own because if they forgot it, they could wear their practice jersey and pants. I've never been anywhere without kids who wound up doing that occasionally for the Thurs. walkthrough.

Game uniforms get collected and washed Friday night immediately after the game.

I haven’t been a program that did daily wash since I was in high school in the early 70’s.

We have those laundry loops. Kids put it in the washer, and I turn it on when I leave for the day. Throw it in the dryer in the AM. If there is enough for a second load I start it and put it in the dryer at lunch.

We offer a weekly wash I think. It's not daily but it's reasonably often. Not enough players take advantage but at the same time the equipment guy is often slow with the turnaround so that's a disincentive. Our linemen think it's funny to wear the same disgusting gear, unwashed, all season. It's been a thing for a few years and it's unbearable, I've literally repositioned drills at times to be upwind of them. Eventually I snapped at them because every year some horrendous plague hits both sides of the line and we have a skeleton crew for one game, because they're disgusting and wearing filthy, wet clothes every day that they shove in a hockey bag for 22 hours before putting back on.