# Pro/College/High School Teams as "Leopards" or "Cheetahs" **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 11, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-college-high-school-teams-as-leopards-or-cheetahs/567240 "2011-01-11T18:14:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-college-high-school-teams-as-leopards-or-cheetahs/567240/1 "2011-01-11T18:14:01Z")
Lots of sports teams with Tigers in the nickname: Detroit, Auburn, Grambling LSU, Clemson, Missouri etc. “Lions” and "Panthers"are well represented: Detroit, Penn St and Pitt, Carolina Jacksonville has the “Jaguars” There is the Vermont Catamounts and Charlotte Bobcats. But I can’t think of any sports teams that are the “Leopards” or the “Cheetahs”. What about other cats like Lynx and Pumas? ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-college-high-school-teams-as-leopards-or-cheetahs/567240/2 "2011-01-11T18:25:10Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > But I can’t think of any sports teams that are the “Leopards” or the “Cheetahs”. What about other cats like Lynx and Pumas? There was once a minor league baseball team in Canada called [the Ottawa Lynx](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Lynx). The professional basketball team for London in the UK SuperLeague is known as the [London Leopards](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Leopards). And there’s a Super 14 Rugby club known as the [Central (South Africa) Cheetahs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Cheetahs). For obvious reasons I don’t think “Cheetahs” would be a popular sports name in the US, especially in Boston! ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-college-high-school-teams-as-leopards-or-cheetahs/567240/3 "2011-01-11T19:07:20Z")
We have a Panther Creek high school but they are the catamounts. There are a lot of cougar teams such as BYU and Houston. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-college-high-school-teams-as-leopards-or-cheetahs/567240/4 "2011-01-11T19:10:35Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Lots of sports teams with Tigers in the nickname: Detroit, Auburn, Grambling LSU, Clemson, Missouri etc. > > “Lions” and "Panthers"are well represented: Detroit, Penn St and Pitt, Carolina > > Jacksonville has the “Jaguars” > > There is the Vermont Catamounts and Charlotte Bobcats. > > But I can’t think of any sports teams that are the “Leopards” or the “Cheetahs”. What about other cats like Lynx and Pumas? I give you [the Minnesota Lynx of the WNBA](http://www.wnba.com/lynx/), the [Lafayette College Leopards](http://www.goleopards.com/), and the [St. Joseph’s College Pumas](http://www.saintjoe.edu/news/?id=5814). There’s also the Puma shoe company. If Wikipedia is correct, cougars, catamounts, and pumas are all the same animal. The category would also include Penn State’s nittany (mountain) lion. I don’t see any cheetahs and I think **Duke** explained why. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-college-high-school-teams-as-leopards-or-cheetahs/567240/5 "2011-01-11T19:25:09Z")
What about [the Leopards](http://thewvsr.com/def.htm)? Joe