Nike Run Defy University Blue

Released on 6 July 2025 and part of the Run Defy line. This release has a mesh upper in University Blue/White/Black/Blue Void. University Blue is one of the shades Nike keeps returning to because it works on almost any silhouette, and on the Run Defy it does the most useful job of all: it makes an entry level running shoe look like something you would wear when you are not running. The Run Defy sits at the accessible end of a range that starts with Bill Bowerman's basic complaint in the mid 1960s, that runners were being sold heavy shoes because nobody had bothered to make lighter ones. Blue Ribbon Sports began by importing better ones, then Nike built its own. Six decades later the accessible tier carries the same brief: get more people moving, without asking them to buy a race shoe first.