# What's your mascot? (High School and College) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 6, 2004, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-mascot-high-school-and-college/267805 "2004-10-06T04:21:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![biqu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@biqu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/biqu)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-mascot-high-school-and-college/267805/21 "2004-10-06T10:43:19Z")
High school: cougars College: bobcats University: terrapins ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-mascot-high-school-and-college/267805/22 "2004-10-06T10:56:47Z")
High School: Fighting Irish College: White Mules Grad School: Volunteers But I think the oddest one of the bunch was my first elementary school: the black-eyed saints. Yep. ---
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-mascot-high-school-and-college/267805/23 "2004-10-06T11:46:55Z")
High School 1: Bulldogs High School 2: Hornets College: Warriors ---
**Author:** ![Grant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a5b964/32.png) [@Grant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grant)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-mascot-high-school-and-college/267805/24 "2004-10-06T12:35:56Z")
High school- The Galloping Ghosts. No idea where that came from but the emblem was kinda interesting. Looked like a Klansman on horseback. :eek: College- Panthers. boring ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-mascot-high-school-and-college/267805/25 "2004-10-06T12:41:04Z")
High school was a ship, college was lions - boring. However, I say _however_ where is work is another story. We have intramural hockey and their mascot is a penis and testicles and his name is Scrotie. ---
**Author:** ![hocow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hocow/32/4112_2.png) [@hocow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hocow)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-mascot-high-school-and-college/267805/26 "2004-10-06T12:52:59Z")
Elementary School: Crusaders High School: Chargers College: Golden Bears ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-mascot-high-school-and-college/267805/27 "2004-10-06T12:59:13Z")
Elementery: St Bernard, I think Middle/High: Knights College: Bobcats ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-mascot-high-school-and-college/267805/28 "2004-10-06T13:06:24Z")
High School #1: Rockets High School #2 (from which I graduated): Spartans College #1: Leathernecks College #2 (from which I graduated): Ambassadors College #2A (nearby to College #2 JuCo from which I took one summer course for a credit I needed): Minutemen College #3 (where I am now enrolled taking a night course just for fun): Loggers ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-mascot-high-school-and-college/267805/29 "2004-10-06T13:24:22Z")
High school: Wildkits ( in the same town as Northwestern so its a spin on the Wildcats) College: Blue Demons ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-mascot-high-school-and-college/267805/30 "2004-10-06T13:36:08Z")
Woodbridge Sr. High School (VA): Vikings George Mason U: Patriots University of VA (grad school): Cavaliers School of Hard Knocks: Frank from Donnie Darko ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-mascot-high-school-and-college/267805/31 "2004-10-06T13:56:20Z")
High School: Indians (the city was named for a local chief.) University: Purple Aces. Evansville’s a river town, and the mascot, Ace Purple, is a riverboat gambler. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-mascot-high-school-and-college/267805/32 "2004-10-06T13:58:05Z")
High School: Grangers (means farmers) College: Panthers Grad School: Bulldogs, or as we like to say it, “Dawgs” ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-mascot-high-school-and-college/267805/33 "2004-10-06T14:02:34Z")
High school: Warriors College: Mustangs ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-mascot-high-school-and-college/267805/34 "2004-10-06T14:06:43Z")
Got the whole canine thing going: High School - Redlands High Terriers College - Cal State San Bernardino Coyotes Then grad school at UCRiverside, which ruins the whole things by being The Highlanders. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sweetums](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Sweetums](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweetums)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-mascot-high-school-and-college/267805/35 "2004-10-06T14:33:44Z")
High School: Cadets College (undergrad): Hilltoppers College (grad) : Golden Flashes ``` All in all, a rather odd set. ``` ---
**Author:** ![Iris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a5b964/32.png) [@Iris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iris)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-mascot-high-school-and-college/267805/36 "2004-10-06T14:45:33Z")
Elementary School: Tigers High School: Indians (mascot recently changed to Falcons) College: Seagulls!! ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-mascot-high-school-and-college/267805/37 "2004-10-06T14:53:26Z")
Undergrad: Green Wave Grad School: The Big Green There is a theme there but I am not sure where it is going. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-mascot-high-school-and-college/267805/38 "2004-10-06T16:37:56Z")
High school: Warriors (since my time deemed insensitive to Native Americans and changed to Wildcats.)\* Undergraduate: Tritons Graduate: Bruins \*On my high school campus, there are running springs. This being in dry L.A., it must be the case that the natives have been gathering on that spot for thousands of years, and this is where the mascot name came from. There was a shared culture among natives living on the Channel Islands and the coastal areas of what is now L.A. During my senior year, while I was taking an anthropology class, a 6000 year old grave was found, with a carved soapstone bowl. Pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![Sami41](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@Sami41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sami41)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-mascot-high-school-and-college/267805/39 "2004-10-06T17:02:07Z")
High School: The Fighting Colts College: The Aggies ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-mascot-high-school-and-college/267805/40 "2004-10-06T17:26:35Z")
College: Golden Bears High School: Matadors Jr. High: we had a team name, I swear, but since we played no sports, I cannot remember what it is. Something Spanish, I think – Conquistadors, maybe. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-mascot-high-school-and-college/267805.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-mascot-high-school-and-college/267805.md?page=3)