School spirit is in the air this time of year with homecoming, football season, and celebrating all fall sports! Many people are proud of being a Gator, but why is the Gator our Mascot?
An interest meeting was set in January 2019, before the school was freshly started, and they had three main choices to choose from, Gators, Guppies, and Goats. Lucky for us, the gators were chosen.
When interviewed, the principal of Green Level, Mrs. Summers said, “In January 2019, we had an interesting meeting on what our mascot was, and the top three were Gators, Guppies, and Goat. We made a poll and the gator was chosen! On February 12th, at Fort Fisher, Kure Beach, they revealed what our title will look like and the staff were all astonished.”
Once the gator was chosen, students and teachers really embraced gators, and four logos were created for the gators. There are also T-shirts and items like that to help spread school spirit all across the school and you can see at least one person wearing it everywhere you look. We have a wide variety of athletes in Green Level and having this logo brings pride to their play.
The mascot of a gator is a great symbol because gators symbolize strength, protection, and wisdom and this logo helps other schools look at us with maturity, which would not be the case if our mascot was the Guppies.
Green Level is in its 5th year of its existence and we look forward to having many more years as the Gators. Go Gators!
