The news came late Friday afternoon that St. Lawrence University would be changing the well known Saints Shield. Instead of being called the St. Lawrence Saints, the school said it would be changing to the St. Lawrence Gnomes.
Although there was no reason given for the change, it's been rumored that since the nordic ski team has a big red trailer to travel to races with, that it would be a good opportunity to flaunt the new mascot on the side.
"We thought it would be a good idea to test out the mascot first with the ski team," said St. Lawrence's head athletic director.
While team members are excited for the change, the nordic ski coaches have differing thoughts.
Assistant cross country ski coach Kyle Curry '16 saw the change as an opportunity to change the brand of the ski team. "I think it's a great way to have a fresh start and perhaps, it will motivate the team to do bigger things."
As for head coach Ethan Townsend he said, "I don't really see the point, but if that's what the school wants to do, then I'm going to go with it and see where it takes us. I'm all for change, but I'm not sure if this is the type of change we need for the program to grow."
It all seemed pretty interesting that the nordic team had an actual statue of a gnome and the school was going to change the mascot to a gnome.
Townsend remarked, "it's pretty ironic really."
If you want to go see the nordic ski team gnome's instagram page, the gnome is named, "gnomeboy_lawrence"
Skier Lucy Hochschartner '20 commented on the change, "yeah, I think it's pretty cool that the school wants to go in this direction. I mean, maybe they have been looking at our Instagram page and seeing the kind of recognition our team is getting."
No matter what direction the new mascot takes the team and the school, the new nordic ski team trailer makeover will be waiting for the winter season to begin next year.
April Fools!
The entirety of this article is false. No gnomes were hurt in the process. Thanks for reading.
No comments:
Post a Comment