Professional motorcycle racer and apparel designer Cory Texter knows what it’s like to defy all odds.

After the Spring-Ford Area High School graduate’s father passed away two years ago, Texter designed a simple T-shirt to memorialize his father. It bore the phrase “Defy All Odds,” to his father’s uncanny ability to remain positive in light of multiple health problems, including Hodgkin’s lymphoma, multiple racing injuries and heart disease.

But the small idea behind the Defy All Odds Apparel Company blossomed in ways that Texter never imagined.