A List of the Strangest School Mascots From Across the United States

When most schools think of a name for a mascot, they usually choose something majestic or fierce, like a bear or a wolf. After all, the mascot represents a college sports team, right? A few schools, however, have truly unusual mascot names that break the norm. Here are a few of the more unusual college mascots.

Sammy The Banana Slug: University of California-Santa Cruz. A banana slug is a slimy yellow mollusk found near the northern California coastal community of Santa Cruz. This free-spirited campus adopted the less-than-majestic slug as a mascot as a commentary on the overemphasis of athletics at many universities. In the 1980s, a chancellor tried to change the mascot to a the more reputable sea lion. But the students fought to keep the slug, so Sammy lives on.

Super Frog the Horned Frog: Texas Christian University. TCU has been using the horned toad as a mascot since 1897. The horned toad might sound like a strange choice of a mascot, but it’s the state reptile of Texas, and Native Americans in the Southwest believed this five inch long frog had ancient powers. The mascot’s name used to be Addy the All-American Frog, but became Super Frog in 1979.

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