In Kansas City top player Mike Moustakas has the nickname “Moose”. When he comes up everyone yells “MOOSE” and does this antler thing. Its pretty funny.
But I wonder, lets say their was a woman athlete with the same name. How would she, and society, handle her being nicknamed “Moose”? Not to mention other famous athletes with nicknames like “Big Country” “Hammering Hank”, “The Assassin”, “Too Tall”, “The Flying Tomato”, or “The Juice”.
Matter of fact I did a Google search for “famous sports nicknames” and only found a couple for women athletes.
So could a woman handle being called “Moose”?
Do you know of many woman athletes who had cool nicknames?
My nickname when I was a fencer was “shrew,” because no matter how tired or how sick I was, I kept on fighting, refusing to quit even when I was down 0-14 in a 15-touch DE match and even the coach was telling me to walk. Normally “shrew” isn’t very complimentary for a woman, but I liked it.
There are relatively few well-known / frequently-used nicknames in U.S. sports these days, period. Many of the examples you gave for male athletes came from the 1960s and 1970s, when professional women’s sports (except for golf and tennis) weren’t really even much of a thing in the U.S. So, I’m not surprised that you can’t find many (any?) nicknames for female athetes.
The first female athlete with a nickname who comes to my mind is Babe Didrikson Zaharias (birth name: Mildred). FloJo (Florence Griffith Joyner) also comes to mind.
Chris “Cyborg” Santos
It would probably give her a case of the vapors.
Yeah, I think female athletes have reached the point where they can handle nicknames. Once they got the vote things became much easier.
Not only do I think women have no issue with nicknames (there are a number of them who are billiards players, from what I recall from when I used to watch), but I personally know a woman who has held the nickname “Moose.”
So, yes.
They let women play sports now? What’s next?? We’ll start judging them on their abilities instead of their looks?
Next they’ll be letting us drive, and then…oh, my, where is the fainting couch…
Currently Mixed Martial Arts champion "Rowdy" Ronda Rousey.
A very petite female housemate of mine in college in 1972 was nicknamed “Moose,” especially funny since another housemate was this enormous blonde bearded lumberjack-type guy who looked like he should have had that nickname.
A girl I used to be friends with years ago had the nickname “The Bulldog” on her field hockey team. Presumably because she was tenacious. Also presumably because she kind of looked like a bulldog.
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Currently Mixed Martial Arts champion "Rowdy" Ronda Rousey.
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Heck, most of the MMA fighters out there have nicknames and that certainly includes the women. In addition to Rowdy and Cyborg a couple right off the top of my head include:
The Venezuelan Vixen
The Karate Hottie
Thug
Tiny Tornado
The Preacher’s Daughter
Mega Megu
Cupcake
The Girlrilla
Ally-Gator
Cookie Monster
Lil’ Bulldog
They all seem to handle it well. And I wouldn’t be the first person to get up in their face and make fun of their nickname 
Not just a nickname, but a badass nickname:
Professional billiards player Jeanette “The Black Widow” Lee.
This Canadian teenaged actress had no problem with the nickname Moose. I’m sure she was well-paid.
My softball nickname was “Chief.” My friend Cathy was “Captain.”
