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Students at the high school, led by the high school principal and the student council, solicited suggested mascot names from the student body and from the community. A variety of names were recommended and put on a ballot. The students at the high school voted to change the name to "Cougars". The Centennial School Board approved the new name. [318]
This is an incomplete list of U.S. college nicknames.. If two nicknames are given, the first is for men's teams and the second for women's teams, unless otherwise noted. ...
This is an incomplete list of U.S. college mascots' names, consisting of named incarnations of live, costumed, or inflatable mascots. For school nicknames, see List of college team nicknames in the United States. For school abbreviation, see List of colloquial names for universities and colleges in the United States
List of ethnic sports team and mascot names; List of college sports team names and mascots derived from Indigenous peoples; List of secondary school sports team names and mascots derived from Indigenous peoples; List of sports team names and mascots derived from indigenous peoples; List of swim clubs
In the United States and Canada, multiple recurring themes have appeared over time for choosing a school's athletic nickname. In almost all cases, the institution chooses an athletic nickname with an overtly positive goal in mind, where that goal reflects the character of the institution—either a previously established characteristic or a characteristic hoped for as a goal henceforth.
Most good team names — relevant or not — work best as two syllables, with the accent on the first one, in particular for the timeless team chant, “Let’s go BLANK blank.” DOD-gers, CHAR ...
Team names and their associated sports mascots are examples of totems in the social sciences; symbols that serve both social and psychological functions with many implicit meanings. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The social function is to connect individuals into a community; the psychological function is to symbolize desired qualities with which fans can identify.
A mascot is any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck, or anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society, military unit, or brand name.