Arizona high school canine mascots

Arizona high school canine mascots are fairly well represented across the state.

While there may not be a ton of Arizona high school canine mascots, we’re still going to track them, just as we have for animal mascots across the nation. Also, we just recapped the animal mascots, bird mascots and feline mascots in Arizona as well, if you wanted to look.

We used Mascot DB as our main source, and apawlogize if we left out your school or misspelled it.

There aren’t many canine mascots, which is a bit odd. Arizona high school sports and activities are governed by the Arizona Interscholastic Association, with the largest schools in 6A and the smallest in 1A.

What Arizona high school canine mascots are out there?

Most numerous of the Arizona high school canine mascots are the Wolves or a variant thereof, with 14 schools using this mascot:  Apache Trail Wolfpack, Arizona Cultural (Phoenix), Avondale La Joya Fighting Lobos, Chandler, Goodyear Estrella Foothills, Many Farms Lobos, Patagonia Lobos, Sahuarita Walden Grove Red Wolves, Scottsdale Desert Mountain, Snowflake Lobos, Tempe Compadre Lobos, Tucson Alta Vista Lobos, Tucson St Augustine, and the Winkleman Hayden Lobos, while Clarkdale also used this nickname.

There are a dozen Bulldogs roaming the state, at Arizona Charter (Surprise), Douglas, Kingman, Mesa Superstition, Queen Creek, Peoria Accelerated, Phoenix Goldwater, Phoenix Bostrom, Phoenix Sierra Linda, Safford, Scottsdale BASIS and Winslow.

Five groups of Coyotes exist at Arizona Lutheran (Phoenix), Mesa Skyline, Peoria Centennial, San Tan Valley Combs, and Sedona Verde Valley, while it was also used at now-closed Phoenix Union. Possibly this was inspired by Wile E Coyote of the Looney Tunes, or the NHL’s Arizona Coyotes?

Anthem Caurus, Chandler Hamilton, Gilbert Campo Verde and Scottsdale Horizon all are home to the Huskies – except for the alliteration, this doesn’t make much sense geographically, because a double-coated dog would not do very well in the desert heat.

Good luck to all the schools’ sports teams this year, and stay safe.