When I actually saw it, I was super overjoyed. “I knew I had a good chance of making it because she told me the Nike representative that she talked to loves the band, which is what inspired those pictures. “It was really a crazy feeling,” Goss said. Goss wears Nike Rubber Dunk x Off-White ‘Green Strike’ sneakers. Out of all the 25 shots Stapleton captured, Nike chose the first picture of the feature to be of a Marching 100 band member, junior Lawrence Goss, holding his sousaphone. “I put it in the band chat too because sometimes I feel like people in the Marching 100 don’t always get extended opportunities to do things so I wanted to make sure one of my first families at FAMU was taken care of.” “Of course, any sneakerhead that shops on the Nike SNKRS app would love to be featured on the app so pretty much all the sneakerheads at FAMU hit me up afterwards,” she said. As a Marching 100 band member, Stapleton made sure to extend the opportunity to her bandmates too. She posted the list of shoes Nike wanted featured to her personal and business Instagram stories asking for any students who would like the chance of being on the app. Is this real?’ I missed the first half because I was astonished and didn’t want to say anything wrong because I didn’t want to lose the deal.”Īfter receiving the assignment from Nike, Stapleton had to get her shots within 48 hours.

The first half of the meeting I was like, ‘Oh my gosh I can’t believe I’m on a Zoom call with Nike right now. “I don’t remember the entire reason because I was so excited. “I think Nike chose to feature FAMU’s homecoming because they already have a partnership with FAMU,” she said. He gave Stapleton’s contact information to the staff member and, just like that, she was on a call with Nike.

Stapleton’s boyfriend, who is also a photographer and goes by the business name StretchLife Visuals, works for FAMU’s athletics department and was asked by one of the staff members if he knew of any female photographers for Nike to work with. Just when you thought Florida A&M University couldn’t continue to be the hot topic after all that happened during homecoming, brace yourself: a FAMU student’s work is featured on the front page of the Nike SNKRS app.Ĭhristina Stapleton, a senior criminal justice major, who didn’t expect her photographs to land her a collaboration with Nike.

Marching 100 member Lawrence Goss holding his sousaphone.

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