Over the past few months, SBLive/High School on SI has been featuring the best high school mascots in every state, giving readers a chance to vote for No. 1 in all 50.

Washington high schools prove you can make a mascot out of just about anything. A personified machine that makes paper? Sure. A potato? Why not. An acorn?

Inside the life of high school mascots — students who walk the walk and talk no talk ...

Occasionally, a school will go outside of the norm and choose to be represented by a less-than-traditional mascot. WUSA9 takes a look at a few of the "odd-ball" mascots from our area's high schools.

Barcelona’s new mascot, a large yellow feline named “Cat,” has made its debut as part of the Spanish club’s 125th anniversary.

Kirkland High School (which later became Lake Washington High School) chose the Kangaroo as a mascot in the 1930s; this image is from the 1943 Kangaroo yearbook. (Feliks Banel) ...

OLYMPIA - The Washington Legislature has approved a measure to ban the use of Native American names, symbols and images as school mascots, logos and team names at most public schools in Washington.

Pete, like many other Washington students, will return to school this fall with a new mascot. She’ll be spending her senior year as a member of the North Central High School Wolfpack.

At Bountiful High School, there’s nostalgia for the Braves name that’s been used for nearly 70 years and comes with an informal mascot - a student dressed up in feathers.

Fort Vancouver High School in Washington has the Trappers as its mascot. / SBLive archives Some elementary school kids in this country grow up as Tater Tots, and high school mascot fans in ...