The Aggies are on a roll.
Since the pandemic, NC A&T State University has joined Space Force, gotten a $45 million grant from McKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ philanthropist ex-wife, and had two of their athletes win gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
And now, they got their own shoe.
Sneakerheads have known about Nike’s Dunk Low for decades, as it’s been one of the most customized shoes in the canon. They came out in 1985 with colors of the Top 12 D1 men’s college basketball programs, which at the time included UNLV, St. John’s, Villanova and the like.
Later skateboarders would adopt the shoe and it was integrated into Nike’s SB offerings. And now there’s a Dunk Low HBCU line, so you know they got that A&T colorline coming out.
The Nike A&T “Ayantee,” named after the school’s yearbook, has Aggie Blue heel panels, with yellow laces, tongue and spine, with”1891” — the year of the land-grant university’s founding — emblazoned on the heel plate.
The sneaker is set to release later this year at select retailers and at Nike.com.
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