I think you meant refined canine… 
We were the Vikings. I don’t recall any Lady Vikings, but there may well have been some.
My high school nickname was the Crusaders. (Catholic high school.) I suppose we’re lucky that no one ever tried to speak of the “Lady Crusaders”. It was a stupid enough nickname all on its own.
It could be worse. Another local high school was the Beavers. If their girls’ teams were called the Lady Beavers, I don’t want to know about it.
The local college’s teams were called the Diplomats, regularly shortened in print to “the Dips”.
Rutgers has the Scarlet Knights … and the Lady Knights. Not, sadly, the Scarlet Ladies.
Centenary College is the home of the Gentlemen … and the Lady Gents. They can use any restroom they like, apparently.
One of my school’s rivals was named for Teddy Roosevelt, so thier team mascot was the RoughRider. The jokes don’t get any easier. (and now my nephew goes there, much fun again ensues)
Another school in the district had a decent mascot (Polar Bear) but had the misfortune of having thier school colors be green and pink. Not good times for the boys teams. They did eventually start doing thier uniforms in green and white with a little boarder of pink and then in the 90’s offically changed to green and white.
OMG–you’re from Curwensville! My parents went to Curwensville High, my aunt taught kindergarten at Curwensville Elementary for 30 years, my cousin teaches science at junior high there…
Talk about a small, small world!
My high school nickname was the Cornjerkers. Our mascot was Jerky - an ear of corn with legs, arms, etc. And yes, they have the Lady Cornjerkers.
I was a Cornjerker. Oof.
None of those are that bad, with the possible exception of the Cornjerkers.
I didn’t go there, but how about the New Berlin Pretzels?
BTW, my high school mascot was also a bulldog. I don’t think we had lady bulldogs, but it’s been a long time. Maybe they were the bulldykes instead…I can’t remember. But I do remember some of the girls on the powder puff football team were damned cute.
there’s also another small town in Idaho that has a state mental institution nearby. The local high school decided the only appropriate mascot for their school was . . . the Maniacs.
Names! PM if you must. I actually went to Grampian Elementary though.
Visions of big, burly gals with short, short haircuts in lumberjack shirts and bib overalls spring to mind.
My mom went there!!!
PM on its way!
In Topeka you have the Topeka High Trojans.
There is also a high school in Topeka called Seaman High School.
So, Seaman vs the Trojans always makes me giggle a little.
In high school, our rivals were the Fairfield Union Charging Knights in Lancaster, Ohio. I was quite disappointed to find out that they’ve now changed their mascot to a falcon.
We were driving in far northern Wisconsin heading towards a casino in da UP, and entered a tiny town that proudly annouced itself as the “Home of the Nimrods”! Had to look it up to learn it had a non-insulting usage.
A Cornjerker, huh? By any chance did you play against my favorite HS team - the Pekin (IL) Chinks?
We were the Indians*. And then I was an Illini in college. Non-PC all the way!
Another former Trojan here. I always tell people we got a lot of “ribbing.”
One of the schools in the next town over from my hometown, in honor of the agrarian history of Northern Colorado, has as its mascot the Lambkins.
Not just the Lambs, mind you. The Lambkins.
Fort Collins High Lambskins vs. Longmont High Trojans = hilarity.
Agrarian names are fairly common around here, though. Out on Colorado’s Eastern plains, we find the Brush High Beetdiggers, the Hoehne High Farmers and the Rocky Ford High Meloneers - the town of Rocky Ford being famous (at least locally) for its canteloupe. Back in the day, Greeley High School (now Greeley Central) were the Spuddiggers.
Duke, turn your PMs on so I can reply! =P
Delta State University has the Lady Statesmen. However, the students have embraced the unofficial nickname of Fighting Okra for the last twenty years or so.
When a ccertain college was being founded in Ohio, one of its benefactors was Lord Kenyon. So the school became Kenyon, and the athletic teams the Lords. When the college added women’s sports, the natural nickname for those teams was Ladies.
Louisiana Tech was one of the early powers in women’s basketball. The team’s founding coach, Sonja Hogg, didn’t think the university’s nickname of Bulldogs was appropriate for young women. So she insisted her squad be referred to as the Lady Techsters. The basketball arena floor pays tribute to this “separate but equal” appellative tradition.
A Topekan checking in! My mother went to Topeka High, but I don’t tease her about the name, she’s not into that kind of joke.
Also in Topeka is Washburn University, home of the Ichabods. Well, for the guy’s teams anyway. There’s not way to get a good feminine version of that, so women are the Lady Blues. Blue and white are the school colors.
Hi, I was an Illini too! Small world.
There’s a small town in Illinois that consolodated when I was in high school. The kids got to vote on their mascot and school colors. So now they’re the Fischer Bunnies, in their pink and blue uniforms. Kids are hilarious.