Warren-based Warrior Sports to outfit Olympic men's hockey players

Warrior Sports is fast becoming athletic outfitter to the world's sports stars. Players from a dozen national teams at the Olympics will be facing off in the hockey rink with Warrior sticks, gloves, helmets and masks.

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"When the men's ice hockey competition begins at the Winter Olympics next week in Russia, nearly a hundred players — including  Detroit Red Wings  Henrik Zetterberg, playing for Sweden, and Jimmy Howard, playing for the United States — will be using equipment from Warren-based  Warrior Sports Inc....

The company — launched in founder David Morrow's  Princeton University  dorm room in 1992 as a manufacturer of handmade titanium lacrosse sticks — has grown into a retailer of equipment, footwear and apparel for lacrosse, soccer, ice hockey and general lifestyle wear...

...Warrior made its first major move into global branding in 2011 when it signed a six-year contract to provide uniforms — known as kits — for the  English Premier League  soccer club  Liverpool FCbeginning in 2012. Warrior replaced German sporting goods giant  Adidas AG."

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