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Suggestions and Criteria for Mascot Selection

Suggestions and Criteria for Mascot Selection
  • Connect with the Trailblazer name and blue and gold colors
  • Be timeless, not trendy
  • Reflect the MCLA community of students, alumni, faculty and staff
  • Ability to be active
  • Generate enthusiasm with children
  • Be appropriate at both athletic and non-athletic events

Our new mascot should not overlap with neighboring institutions or our fellow MASCAC members: Bears, Buccaneers, Falcons, Lancers, Owls, Rams, or Vikings.

Suggestions must comply with the NCAA policy regarding the display of hostile and abusive racial/ethnic/national origin mascots, nicknames or imagery.