Name-a-Day Calendar, March 19: Kennesaw State Owls

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Chosen in: 1982

Chosen by: School administration

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Kennesaw State University is a fairly new institution, having been founded in 1966 as Kennesaw Junior College and then becoming a four-year school in 1976. The school’s first athletics program came in 1982, and — in “things you’d never see before Title IX” — it was actually a women’s basketball team. The school nicknamed its newborn teams the Owls as “a symbol of tenacity and intelligence”.

Since the early 1990s, Kennesaw State has employed a costumed mascot named Scrappy; it took on its current form in 2012. Alternate names include “Flappy Boi” and “Jayhawk Jr.”.

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