“Wildcats” share the fourth most used nickname in D-I athletics, tied with “Cougars,” each represented by 32 institutions.

Why Is Wildcats the Mascot? Kansas State has endured three different mascots on four different occasions, but the Wildcat has ...

I have memories of being a cheerleader during my years at Florence High School during the 1960s, cheering the Wildcats on to victory on the basketball court and on the football field. And victorious ...

The fate of Willie did not improve in 1949, when Purdue male cheerleaders, not realizing that Willie was two women, picked up the wildcat and threw it into their boilermaker mascot. Apologies were ...