Dillon Gabriel partnering with Nike and BTN Sports to outfit Mililani High School

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Now, Oklahoma quarterback Dillon Gabriel is launching a partnership with Nike and BTN Sports on a five-year outfitting deal that will provide Mililani high school, his alma mater, with uniforms and equipment.

Gabriel, who hails from Hawaii discussed with KHON out of Honolulu why this partnership means so much to him.

“The first couple practices when I was a freshman at Mililani, one of my boys would have no shoes one day. Sometimes he would use my pair,” Gabriel told Rob DeMello of KHON in Honolul. “Just being able to know that this Nike partnership could help and potentially be something big to where if you’re on the team, you ain’t gotta worry about that.”

Oklahoma’s starting quarterback recognizes how fortunate he’s been as a student athletes at an FBS school to be provided with all of the gear and equipment he would need.

“That’s something I’m really blessed to be in, cause when you’re in college you get all of that,” Gabriel said. Sometimes you take it for granted cause a lot of schools or some places don’t have that and I just would never want that to happen again.”

Dillon Gabriel’s already made an impact at the collegiate level in his time at UCF and he’s a big reason fans and analysts are optimistic about Oklahoma heading into 2022. And now he’s making a huge impact on Mililani, a place that helped him get to where he is today.

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