About Mayfield Athletics

Mayfield Athletics is an innovative sports equipment company with a passion to enhance safety and functionality for players of all ages. 

We are a group of fiercely dedicated former athletes, parents, and fans of the game with a passion to make football safer for our own children, current players, and the players of tomorrow.

Simply stated, our products are designed with the highest quality materials, intelligently engineered, and rigorously tested—because we believe our athletes of today and tomorrow deserve nothing less.

• First Conceptual drawings
• Formation of Hobart Mayfield LLC
• First Shark Tank Pitch

• Patent Filed for “Shock Absorbing Football Equipment”
• First 3D printed prototypes made
• Gen 1 prototype made

• Device officially named S.A.F.E.Clip (Shock Absorbing Football Equipment)
• First functional prototypes produced
• NOCSAE standards testing begins
• Early results showcase 25% impact reduction

• S.A.F.E.Clip completes additional rounds of testing
• All tests show consistent 20%+ reduction in force 
• S.A.F.E.Clip attends its first football convention to pitch product
• SAFEClip is invited to present to the MHSFCA (Michigan High School Football Coaches Association)
• SAFEClip gains fully pantented status. (P#9750298B2)

• Hobart Mayfield re-brands to Mayfield Athletics
• S.A.F.E.Clip is reintroduced with drastic cosmetic improvements, color options, hardward options & improved force reductions
• S.A.F.E.Clip gains endorsement from MHSFCA
• Final rounds of testing take place
• S.A.F.E.Clip available for purchase
• Mayfield Athletics merges with market leader Zuti Facemasks (a facemask manufacurer producing premium made, fully cast, facemasks)

• Gen 2 Clip Production Initiated
• Samples Sent to First Case Study Schools
• S.A.F.E.Clip Hires Key Executive Staff
• S.A.F.E.Clip Partners with H.I.T.Corp to Raise Concussion Awareness