New School Names

[simple man]

Should have been the "Stone Mountain Stoners" for one of the schools- could have used Shaggy and Scooby for mascots.

[beamer_ball]

Mascots, colors chosen for Wise County's three new consolidated schools | TriCities.com

Spartans, Warriors and Bears? Oh, puhleez | TriCities.com

[Merlin]

So, PV and Appy went totally off the chart with that. I like the name of the school. Very original, unlike the other 4 schools. The Wise/Pound school could have come up with a more original mascot. Warriors is an awful lot like Indians.

I guess it is an obvious leap to assume that "Warrior" immediately implies "Indians", but that need not be the case. There are many, many examples throughout history of "warriors" in various cultures all over the world including those from the many Native American tribes that were prevalent across our continent, as well as, South America.

I never like to quote Wikipedia, but here goes -- "A warrior is a person skilled in combat or warfare, especially within the context of a tribal or clan-based society that recognizes a separate warrior class."

Spartans are in fact an example of a warrior culture from ancient Greece. From early Celtic, Germanic and Norse (Viking) tribes previously considered barbarians to Japanese Samurai, from Medieval knights to African Zulus, from Persian "Immortals" to ancient Roman soldiers and gladiators -- all were warriors in their respective cultures.

It will be very interesting to see which example of "warrior" is actually chosen to be the mascot since the term "warrior" is actually very ambiguous. I like the idea of a Roman gladiator or Barbarian (i.e. Conan from the series of novels), but it remains to be seen what will win out. You may be correct that a Native American symbol may have been the intent of this choice, but it really doesn't have to be. Just my 2 cents....

[Unchained]

It is my understanding that this warrior will not be Indian-affiliated,but Warriors is still much generic as far as mascots/name goes