What’s out there in the world of Arkansas high school animal mascots?
As with all of our research in tracking animal mascots (as best we can) all the animal mascots around the US, Mascot DB was our main resource, and we apawlogize if we misspelled your school or left it out.
Arkansas high school sports are governed by the Arkansas Activities Association, which sanctions championships in baseball, basketball, bowling, cheer, cross country, football, golf, soccer, softball swimming, tennis, track, volleyball and wrestling.
The largest schools play in Class 7A, with the smallest in Class 1A.
What Arkansas high school animal mascots are there?
Most numerous of the Arkansas high school animal mascots are the insects, with 14 schools using Hornets – Bee Branch South Side, Blevins, Bryant, Camden Harmony Grove, Clinton Alread, Hackett, Harrisburg, Hazen, Maumelle, Mineral Springs, Mount Holly, Oark, Ozark Pleasant View, and Van-Cove – while another seven in Bay, Clinton, Kingston, Mountain View, Sheridan, Stampsand Wynne all use Yellowjackets, and there are also the Fordyce Redbugs.
Bears are also common, with eight schools using that: Bearden, Bradley, Hope Spring Hill, Lexa Barton, Mammoth Spring, Rison Woodlawn, Sherwood Sylvan Hills, and White County. Additionally, there are the Little Rock Pulaski Bruins (of never-punting football fame) and the Fort Smith Northside Grizzlies.
When it comes to various weasely creatures, there are the Badgers of Arkadelphia, Beebe and Eudora; the Mena Bearcats, the Bearkatz of Boonville, Brookland and Melbourne, and the Wolverines from Bentonville and Western Yell County.
In the corral are the seven Mustangs of Forrest City, Hoxie, Marvell, Monette Buffalo Island, North Little Rock Central Arkansas Christian, Pleasant Plain Midland and Perryville, along with the Wilson Rivercrest Colts and the Little Rock Homeschool and Pine Bluff Zebras.
Cattle are represented in the Carlisle Bison, Viola Longhorns and Fort Smith Southside Mavericks.
DeWitt, Helena White, Junction City, Mountainburg and Texarkana Genoa are all known as the Dragons.
Three sets of Rams exist in Dermott, Hot Springs Lakeside and Paragould.
Snakes are also a trio in the Hot Springs Fountain Lake Cobras and the Rattlers of Magazine Leftwich and Murfreesboro.
Finally, all other animals in the zoo that can be Arkansas high school sports are the Deer Antlers, Lake Village Lakeside and Malvern Glen Rose Beavers, Monticello Billies, Arkansas Sci-Math-Arts (Hot Springs) Dolphins, Elkins Elks, Foreman and Ola Two Rivers Gators, Lonoke Jackrabbits, Newark Kangaroos, Texarkana Arkansas Razorbacks and Dardanelle Sand Lizards.
Good luck to all these schools’ sports teams this year, and stay safe.