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Re: Should FRC Team name = HS athletic team name?

I've actually got two stories...

My H.S. team is actually the one and only team the school directly fields (non-traditional school), unless you count FLL teams on occasion. We used a variation of the school colors (which are blue/white--team uses yellow instead of white), but the name was picked way long time ago, and trying to change it now would cause mass confusion. Actually, the colors took a while to lock in.


The team I currently mentor has students from multiple high schools, uses a name that references all of them AND the district, and uses colors that aren't really used by any high school in the district (one school is close, but maroon != red).


My opinion... the team should decide whether to have their name be close to or far from their school's name, or some combination of names for multi-school teams. Ditto for colors. Any WildStang members want to comment? I seem to recall hearing that they had an interesting choice.
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