Best high school mascots in America: 15 most unique nicknames (Random Bracket)

Last month we began our quest to find the fans' favorite high school sports nickname in the country.

We split up our favorite names by category with 15 entries each, and our first of 12 editions was the Jobs Bracket, followed by the Animals Bracket and then the Mythical Creatures Bracket.

Week 2 stuck to an academic theme with the Historical Figures Bracket, followed by the Geography Bracket and finally the Science Bracket.

Week 3 started with the Food Bracket, followed by the Action Bracket and then the Pun Bracket, and our final week has featured the Stuff Bracket and Class Struggle Bracket.

Vote now: Which high school has the best mascot in America? (Pun Bracket)

Vote now: Which high school has the best mascot in America? (Stuff Bracket)

Vote now: Which high school has the best mascot in America? (Class Struggle Bracket)

The only way to follow something like the Class Struggle Bracket is with something random, so our final edition before the championship round is called the Random Bracket. Check scorebooklive.com tomorrow for a poll to vote on your favorite.

Randolph Ro-Hawks (Texas)

Never heard of a Ro-Hawk? Is it a mythical creature? No, it’s a hawk riding a rocket, which is about a random as random gets.

Fairbury Jeffs (Nebraska)

Fairbury is in Jefferson County, but that’s the smaller part of the story behind the Jeffs. The reference to a mostly forgotten comic strip called "Mutt and Jeff" that the school adopted when having a human mascot became popular.

Prescott Curley Wolves (Arkansas)

In the 1920s, after the Prescott football team delivered a thrashing of Little Rock, an Arkansas Gazette news editor wrote the headline, “WE THINK THAT THE BOYS ARE CURLEY WOLVES.” The team loved it, and they’ve been the Curley Wolves ever since.

South Stanly Rowdy Rebel Bulls (North Carolina)

If they were just the Rowdy Bulls or Rebel Bulls, this squad might have been in the Animals Bracket. But making these Bulls both rowdy and rebellious made Random seem more appropriate.

Coventry Oakers (Rhode Island)

The school’s full nickname is the Knotty Oakers, but it’s usually shortened to Oakers. The original high school was built near the corner of Knotty Oak Road, the location of a large oak tree that was a local landmark.

Champions (Cascade, Tennessee; Cesar Chavez, Arizona)

They can play Queen’s “We Are the Champions” at every sporting event and never be wrong.

Lloyd Memorial Juggernauts (Kentucky)

From the school’s website about the 1928-29 football team: “The Cincinnati Post wrote the Lloyd’s team played 'like a juggernaut’ and the name stuck. Lloyd then became the Juggernauts, being the only school or college with that mascot.”

Effingham Flaming Hearts (Illinois)

Ada Kepley, the first American woman to graduate from law school, was a resident and proponent of tourism in Effingham. She dubbed the town as the "Heart of America,” and that led to the school’s team name change from the Warriors to the Flaming Hearts. No one is sure where the “Flaming” came from.

Charles Wright Tarriers (Washington) 

No, not the Terriers. “Tarrier” is an Irish/Scotch ethnic stereotype, with one definition meaning a “loiterer” and another saying it’s a kind of railroad worker.

Compton Tarbabes (California)

In 1927, a community college was added to the high school’s campus, and the mascot changed from the Lions to the Tartars (a Mongolian warrior). The college was known for being “Adult” Tartars while the high school was considered “Baby” Tartars. The Baby Tartars have had many nicknames over the years: Little Tartars, Tartar babies, Babes and now the Tarbabes.

Glenville Tarblooders (Ohio)

From the “What is a Tarblooder” section of the Glenville website: “It is a school battle cry that started during the 1940s indicating that members of the Glenville athletic teams would whack the ‘tar’ and ‘blood’ from its opponents. Thus, our colors are red and black.” Yikes.

Green Mountain Valley School Gumbies (Vermont)

From the “Why Gumby?” section on the school website: “In the late 1980s, the GMVS girls soccer team was making a run at the state championship title. After one game, a reporter asked the team what their mascot was. They looked at one another – they didn’t have an official mascot – and in a moment of creativity, one girl spoke up. ‘Well, we’re flexible, we’re agile, we’re fun…I guess we’re the Gumbies.’ The name stuck.”

Lake Forest Academy Caxys (Illinois)

We know you already know this, but “Caxy" is ancient Greek for “ribbit." In the early 1900s, Aristophanes’ comedy “The Frogs” was the subject of a popular Greek literature class at the school. Thus, the Caxys.

Northwest The House (Washington)

From the Seattle school’s website: “Yes, our mascot is The House. Modeled after our grand old main building, The House not only brings a smile to everyone’s face, it stands for what is most important about us – we are an intellectual home where ideas are relished and creativity applauded. Where we treat each other with respect and expect everyone, no matter what age, to pitch in and clean up. We believe there’s no better place to challenge ideas, stretch minds, and build strong character than a welcoming and caring house.”

Page Sandites (Oklahoma)

Sandite is a a mixture of sand, antifreeze and steel shot used on railways to combat leaves on the lines. But that’s not what anyone from Sand Springs is referring to when using the word Sandite. It just means “a person from Sand Springs.” And the Sand Springs Page Sandites’ mascot is a minuteman, which has nothing to do with Sandites.