Mascot Selection Moves to Next Phase

"This summer, 13,000 University of Mississippi students, alumni and fans voted to narrow down the eleven mascots presented by the Ole Miss Mascot Selection Committee. This week, the committee will meet to review images of the top five mascots. They are, in no particular order: the Lion, the Land Shark, the Horse, the Black Bear, and the characters Hotty and Toddy.

In the committee’s next meeting, members will finalize images of these mascots to be released to the public this month. 

“It is exciting,” Margaret Ann Morgan, co-chair of the committee, said. 

“With this next step, we will be able to view images of the possible mascots and be able to picture them on the field.”

 The committee is following a seven-phase process to determine what the new mascot will be..........