[Kristina]

Team Name: Hart Burn

Our high school name was Hart High School so we had a good name to play off of. So we opened up the dictionary and found words that had the heart prefix. So we had a few prospects: Hart Attack (though highly overused at our school), Hart Condition which led to the Pacemakers (we were thinking of going with a medical theme), Hart and Soul etc.

After a few days though, Hart Burn was the winner and here's the criteria that may help your team:

1. You remember the name. Some teams are remembered by their number but most people know our team name. It's a comical concept so it sticks in your head. It was also easy to chant.

2. You can do a lot with it theme wise. Images of flames reinforce the name so they were on our tshirts, on banners, on our robot, on the bags we gave out, etc. The "fire" image also worked when we gave out fireball candies, hot tamales, big red gum. When we did brochures, our webpage, publications out to sponsors and the school, it was always easy to follow the basic theme. The name was a publicity person's dream because they had a lot to work with.

3. It's gender neutral so both sides of the aisle were happy.

4. It went along with our school colors, black and red.