What’s in a (gold) number? Ask the track team.

Each year, Rhode Island’s men’s track and field team assistant coach Rob Whitten designs new practice T-shirts for the athletes. This year’s design was a grey shirt with a gold “20/20” logo, a reminder of the team’s championship goals: this was the year the team wanted to record both the 20th Atlantic 10 Championship and 20th New England Championship in program history.

“We wanted to make a shirt that was a little different,” Whitten said. “Our athletes have seen photos of former URI teams in the old gold uniforms, and they loved the look, asking if we could go back to gold. While it wasn’t really possible for us to do that, incorporating gold into the practice shirts was a way to pay homage to the history of the program here.”

The sartorial bet paid off: the team pulled off both milestones, making 20/20 both challenge and reality.