We were the Bearkats, yes, with a “k.” Girls were Lady Bearkats. Dance team was Bearkat Babes and band was Green (our color) Machine.
What the hell is a bearkat?
The Beaufort High School Eagles.
Then I transfered to the Beaufort Academy Eagles.
Shoals Jugrox here. How sad is that?
Don’t get me wrong. The actual Jug Rock is a natural rock formation that does not, curiously, look like a jug. But it’s a tall, shapely column of rock with a huge, wedge-shaped boulder balanced on the top. Very interesting, yes, but not SO interesting that students want their school mascot to be a ROCK, you know?
And that lovey spelling too! JugroX! How clever! And our school mascot was–you guessed it–a big paper mache replica of said rock. Whoohoo!
~k
I live close to the Cary Imps. Little green devil with a pitchfork. Opposing schools call them the Wimps.
We were the Booker T. Washington Hornets. Pretty cool, although we didn’t actually have a mascot in the sense of someone who dressed up in a hornet suit. Our school seal, painted in the foyer (stepping on it was punishable by an ass-kicking), was a hornet standing on its two bottom legs with boxing gloves on its four “hands”.
On a side note, here in Missoula, there’s a Catholic school called Loyola Sacred Heart. The boys’ teams are called the Rams (for some reason), but the girls’ teams are called…
Wait for it…
The Sacred Heart Breakers. :rolleyes:
No, I am not joking. I wish I were.
Hey,* hey, hey!*
Stop dissin’ Pegleg Pete, Hello Again and Dire Wolf. “Bloodthirsty, mean, and evil” indeed!
Some people around here might get offended.
~ stuyguy
[grinny here]
You think that’s bad? Remember what my high school team name was. The Riders.
That meant the girls were Lady Riders.
Think about it. Shouldn’t that have been the name for the guys teams?
I may have you all beat! I went to St. Lawrence Central and we were…the Larries. I guess they figured that since Larry is short for Lawrence, then the team name should be Larries. It wasn’t until we were working on the yearbook that we thought…“WTF is a Larry anyway??” Someone suggested that it might be some sort of bird.
So, is that the worst one? [gameshow host voice]Tell her what she’s won, Johnny![/gameshow host voice]
Hey, Lindy…from Tulsa?
Graduate of Union High School here.
Mascot: The Redskins. We did the tomahawk chop and everything. Our mascot was a guy dressed up like an Indian, and our Football Team always entered the field through a teepee. I know it’s not PC, but I hope they don’t change it for sentimental reasons. I loved high school.
My parents went to school in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Mascot: The Zebras.
Ah! You’re like a local, Inky! I went to Seaside high, not far from Morgan Hill (well, 30 minutes, but we still played against Live Oak in football…and when i was there ('93 - '97), our team sucked :)).
We were the Seaside High Spartans. Our Gymnasium, which is visible from the highway has a big “spartan head” painted on the side. During my senior year they re-painted it (it was painted in the 60’s). Nice gruff looking spartan head too. The mascot suit was ugly though…big head with a huge nose and messy “hair”.
However, my college’s mascot is more original. We are the Sea Otters :)(Hey, Otters are into rough sex…the males bite the females on the nose, often to the point where females have pink noses from scars). It’s nice cause they make up cute names for svents on campus: “a space ottersey”. We have a whole sea theme for all of our campus events (well official ones), like the recent on campus admissions day: Kelp Kraze.
I think ours is MUCH better than UCSC’s mascot, who are the banana slugs. Just a few weeks ago we were playing against them in Basketball, and any students who brought salt shakers with them got in for free :).
As a matter of fact, yes. 
Coming back for Christmas, even.
Union, eh? I seem to recall (mid-1980’s) that we used to beat the crap out of you guys in football and basketball ('course, we beat the crap out of almost everybody back then) :D:p
And it could have been worse. You could have gone to McClain (how the hell is that spelled, anyway? It looks wrong no matter how I try it), and been a Scot. Strange for a mostly-black school…
Must be the Johnnie Walker Black Label Scots! 
Waukesha South Blackshirts…umm, weren’t the Blackshirts Italian fascists in WWII, or something like that?
Yep, but we must have been embarrased over that so we adopted a cardinal as our mascot, but we were and are the Blackshirts! (Beats a teapot anyday!)
Akron, Ohio. East high school. We were the Orientals. Our mascot was a dragon.
Here in New Middletown, Ohio, we are called the Springfield Tigers. The girl’s teams are called the Lady Tigers and in the Middle School, they are called the Little Tigers.
Some if the teams we play in football are the Poland Bulldogs, Mc Donnald Blue Devils, and the The South Range Raiders.
My first year high it was an alligator. But then I switched schools and it was a Trogan… I usually just say it was a condom 
. Then I moved back and it was a gator again.
Robert E. Lee Generals
School dates from the 1920’s when most schools around here were named after Confederate heros - a trend that continued into the 1960’s (Nathan B. Forrest Rebels from the mid-60’s) - they were one of our rivals. The HS that opened my Sr. year is the Ed White Commanders (first US space-walk, died in Apollo 1 fire), so we do grow and learn.
I was in the band, and we kicked ass, the football team won like 3 games my 3 years there. Anyway, our band director developed complex routines. One routine, to get the tubas to line up with the letters LEE at the appropriate time, they had to start out EEL - of course that pic graced rival Forrest’s yearbook, with some sort of nasty comment.
The ironic thing is that, due to demographic changes both Lee and Forrest have predominantly African-American populations now. Don’t know how they treat their namesakes on campus.
Elizabeth Seton High School - we were the Roadrunners. The Warner Brothers’ version, not the real bird.
Not bad. Definitely better than some of the others listed!
Sheri
We were the Raiders. Several junior highs fed the high school, the one I attended was the Spartans. The cross town rivals were the Trojans. :eek: It has an all new meaning now that was lost on me back then because I was so naive.
The Lobos