School nicknames (state by state)

Until 1983, you also had the Pekin Chinks:

 

Pennsylvania
Western Beaver Golden Beavers
Farrell Steelers (they were the first Steelers)

 

Wisconsin:
The Kimberly Papermakers

 

The Hickman Kewpies (Columbia, Mo.) have always been one of my favorite teams. Yes, they were named after the Kewpie Dolls. Their logo:

 

Virginia:

Fluvanna County Flying Flucos
Petersburg Crimson Wave (and their distant cousins, the Grundy Golden Wave and the Narrows Green Wave)
Hampton Crabbers (and their blood rivals, the Phoebus Phantoms)
Poquoson Islanders
Richlands Blue Tornado
Graham G-Men (their girls teams are the G-Girls)
Annandale Atoms
Churchland Truckers (complete with an awesome mural in their gym of a truck crashing through the wall)
Brookville Bees
King & Queen Royal Tigers
Chincoteague Ponies
Colonial Beach Drifters
Council Cobras
Lee-Davis Confederates
Green Run Stallions (South County, a new school, also has this nickname)
Handley Judges
Heritage Pride
Highland Springs Springers
James River Rapids
King George Foxes
Langley Saxons
John Marshall Justices
Mount Vernon Majors
Norview Pilots
Booker T. Washington Mighty Bookers
Waynesboro Little Giants
West Point Pointers
Woodrow Wilson Presidents

 

West Virginia:

The Polka Dots

 

Wisconsin: Monroe Cheesemakers

 

South Dakota: Mitchell Kernels.

Play home games in the Corn Palace.

 

Girls teams should be the G-strings.

 

I always thought Lee-Davis was missing out on an awesome nickname by not calling their girls teams the Confederettes.

 

Also, my middle school years were spent as a Madison Matador.

 

I forgot the Washington Little Prexies.