(05-22-2017 09:26 AM)TopperCard Wrote:  This is fun, I'll play

Grade School: Cougars - Mascot is a Cougar
High School: Shamrocks - Mascot is a Leprechaun
Undergrad: Hilltoppers (WKU) - Mascot is Big Red
Grad: Cardinals (UofL) - Mascot is Louie the Cardinal Bird

And before you ask "What's a Hilltopper?" and "What the @$#% is WKU's mascot?"... I have no clue :)

Looks like a muppet.

K-5 - Cougars
6th - Lions
7th & 8th - Dragons
HS - Raiders
USF Bulls

(05-22-2017 06:32 AM)FastTheo Wrote:  

(05-22-2017 06:24 AM)BearcatJerry Wrote:  

(05-21-2017 06:01 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  My high school is probably one of very few across all levels of sport to have two nicknames.

You mean like Auburn (Tiger/War Eagle), North Texas (Eagle/Mean Green), and Miami of Ohio (Redskin/Red Hawk)? (Ok, that last one was more of a cheat, but MoO U fans stubbornly cling to the old one...

Undergrad was the IUP (Indiana U. Of PA) Indians...which used a black bear as their mark. This was at the start of the NCAA Indian mascot stuff. After I graduated they changed to 'Crimson Hawks' while still keeping an Indian statue in front of the field house.

I wonder if Eastern Michigan, Marquette, etc still cling to the old 'indian' names?

My elementary school was named Calusa (after the indian tribe). Our mascot was like the braves, reds, scalpers, savages, can't remember. Looked them up and now they're the "Firehawks"

This is a fun thread

Elementary - Mustangs (not unique, blatant knockoff of SMUs logo)
Middle - Wildcats (not unique, blatant knockoff of K-State's logo and colors)
High School 1 - Broncos (not unique)
High School 2 - Yellow Jackets (not unique, blatant knockoff of Georgia Tech logo and colors)
Undergrad - Horned Frogs (unique)
Graduate School - Badgers (fairly unique, although my dad's HS...Tucson High in Arizona is also the badgers)

Here in Ohio, here are a few unique mascots I have come across:

(Cleveland) John Marshall Lawyers
Crooksville Ceramics
(Cleveland) University Heights Mayhem
(Cleveland) Glenville Tarblooders
(Cleveland) East Tech Scarabs
Shelby Whippets
Smithville Smithies
Huntington Local Huntsmen
South Webster Jeeps
(Columbus) Africentric Nubians
East Liverpool Potters
(Columbus) Mifflin Punchers
Groveport Madison Cruisers
Urbana Hillclimbers
Fredericktown Freddies
Antwerp Archers
Hamilton Big Blue
Steubenville Big Red
Ottoville Big Green

The most unique mascot has to be Rhode Island School of Design's "Scrotie". Below is a look at the old Scrotie mascot. The new Scrotie mascot can be seen here:
http://www.risd.edu/About/News/Scrotie_Responds/

We were the Bad Axe [MI] High School Hatchets (dad worked at Dow their HQ in Midland, MI about an hour away and mom was a teacher at BAHS)...I'm pretty sure that's the only one of it's kind. Thank god soccer got my brother and I out of the Thumb (to Indiana and Cincinnati respectively) and we were able to convince my parents to move closer to population

There is an extremely well reputed school in Ohio who the team I coach kicking/punting for plays every year that has a pretty interesting mascot, the Glenville HS Tarblooders.

(05-21-2017 10:59 PM)eltigre Wrote:  K - I went to K before it was mandatory so mine was private. Joyland. No nickname but it was down the street from Graceland and Elvis would bring popsicles.
Elem - private was the Saints / Public was the Broncos
JHS - the Chiefs
HS - the Chiefs
College - THE Tigers

My favortie though is - the Tarpon High School Spongers (yes, as in a sponge). My brother lived near there and I knew a girl that graduated from TSHS.

#RockinRaleigh

Elem: Panthers
Middle: Eagles
High: Panthers
Univ: Tigers

Very creative.

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Temple Owl


That's it.

(05-22-2017 09:58 AM)SublimeKnight Wrote:  

(05-22-2017 06:32 AM)FastTheo Wrote:  

(05-22-2017 06:24 AM)BearcatJerry Wrote:  

(05-21-2017 06:01 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  My high school is probably one of very few across all levels of sport to have two nicknames.

You mean like Auburn (Tiger/War Eagle), North Texas (Eagle/Mean Green), and Miami of Ohio (Redskin/Red Hawk)? (Ok, that last one was more of a cheat, but MoO U fans stubbornly cling to the old one...

Undergrad was the IUP (Indiana U. Of PA) Indians...which used a black bear as their mark. This was at the start of the NCAA Indian mascot stuff. After I graduated they changed to 'Crimson Hawks' while still keeping an Indian statue in front of the field house.

I wonder if Eastern Michigan, Marquette, etc still cling to the old 'indian' names?

My elementary school was named Calusa (after the indian tribe). Our mascot was like the braves, reds, scalpers, savages, can't remember. Looked them up and now they're the "Firehawks"

I think that has to be the more interesting subject. Did you childhood school mascots change?

I recall in the 80's, my 1st 2 years at Elementary, we were the "Witter Wasps" but then we changed to the Wildcats.

One of my middle schools was the Sligh Red Devils which later changed after I left to the Sligh Panthers. Weak.

(05-22-2017 06:24 AM)BearcatJerry Wrote:  

(05-21-2017 06:01 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  My high school is probably one of very few across all levels of sport to have two nicknames.

You mean like Auburn (Tiger/War Eagle), North Texas (Eagle/Mean Green), and Miami of Ohio (Redskin/Red Hawk)? (Ok, that last one was more of a cheat, but MoO U fans stubbornly cling to the old one...

No, I mean we legitimately have two different nicknames for athletics. Not a battle cry or a former name.

Elementary - Tigers
Middle - Demons
High School - PamPack - I call winner on most unique mascot
College 1 - Pirates
College 2 - Sun Devils

*fun fact - Middle School and ASU both use Sparky mascot image.

(05-22-2017 11:56 AM)FrancisDrake Wrote:  Elementary - Tigers
Middle - Demons
High School - PamPack - I call winner on most unique mascot
College 1 - Pirates
College 2 - Sun Devils

*fun fact - Middle School and ASU both use Sparky mascot image.

Wow, I think that actually rivals Sandites. We get asked what a Sandite is a lot so I know how this feels...but what is a PamPack? lol

Went to a Catholic all-boys school. Mascot is the 'Purple Wave' - only school I've ever heard with that mascot.

Represents Christianity, and yet nobody seems to be able to make this apparently MASSIVE conceptual leap: "What's a Purple Wave?!". SMDH

(05-22-2017 11:59 AM)Hurricane Drummer Wrote:  

(05-22-2017 11:56 AM)FrancisDrake Wrote:  Elementary - Tigers
Middle - Demons
High School - PamPack - I call winner on most unique mascot
College 1 - Pirates
College 2 - Sun Devils

*fun fact - Middle School and ASU both use Sparky mascot image.

Wow, I think that actually rivals Sandites. We get asked what a Sandite is a lot so I know how this feels...but what is a PamPack? lol

My dad was in the military so I spent the last two years of high school at a Department of Defense Dependent Schools. Our mascot was the Hadites.

There is a high school in West Virginia in the (unincorporated) "town" of Poca.
Their mascot is...wait for it... "The Dots."

I kid you not.

They won an ESPN contest several years back for the "most creative mascot." Their mascot costume looks like a big, red, hockey-puck with a scowling face. Always used to scare my kids to death at the County Fair.

Up the street from my office, in Morgantown, WV, is a local middle school whose mascot is the Seal... Nothing really special there, except the mascot had to go through a "redux" a couple of years ago... The old "Seal" had a sailor cap, a rolled up t-shirt with a noticeable pack of cigarettes in the sleeve, an anchor tattoo, and a "five O'clock shadow." A real bad-a** looking seal.

When the mascot was redone a couple of years back, the stubble disappeared, the cigs disappeared, and the tatt was switched from an anchor to "RRR"...which stands for "Readiness, Responsibility, and Respect."

The students also used to cheer "Hork! Hork! Hork!" at their athletic events...which has also apparently had the kibosh put upon it.

I guess I probably could share my own mascot history:
-Elementary: Dalmatians
-Middle (6-7): Knights
-Middle (8): Cougars (New school...we got to "name" the new mascot, but nobody I know ever voted for the "Cougar")
-High School: Raiders (Another new school, but I don't remember anyone asking our opinion on this one...)
-College: Road Runners (The name came from the early years of my college, which was scattered across several buildings in Downtown Denver, which saw students running across roads to get to and from classes... But even when a campus was established, when I was there, you still had to run across a six-lane road to get from one-side of the campus to the other. And even across Speer Blvd. to get to a couple of buildings.)

Elementary-High School - Rockets
College - Shockers

Both are pretty unique I'd say.