In other words, fire ants. Nasty little buggers. Honestly, I’d hate to wrangle with these things. So, really, not a bad mascot at all.
Progreso is a town of about 4,800, right on the border, about 20 miles from the Gulf. Local products include sugar and, formerly, citrus. It’s about 99% Latino.
Really couldn’t find much on the high school. Their website certainly didn’t tell me much. It does, though, rock some pretty 1990s-style web design. In particular, I really dig the multiple colors and fonts:
Elsewhere, I did find that they have 450 students and are 100% minority and 100% “economically disadvantaged.”
They at least seem to have all the regular sports. Couldn’t find much else on those either though. That said, the logo on the football helmets, with those little pincers, is pretty darn cool:
As for the mascot, it has a rather odd derivation:
“The Mighty Red Ants of Progreso are named not for the pesky insect but for the nickname a beloved teacher called her students when the district had only one elementary school.” (Midland Reporter-Telegram)
Not sure if I’m totally buyin’ it. Those suckers are just too dang scary for something like that:
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