Today you can still find him roaming the stands at athletic events and making special appearances on campus and throughout Wichita. Ad Blocker Detected Thanks for visiting!
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Wichita State, according to the school's athletic website, is named the Shockers because of the practice of "shocking" harvesting wheat in Kansas.
In the school's early days, most student athletes earned college money working all Summer in the fields harvesting and threshing wheat. In , the nickname "Wheat Shockers" was used for the first time for the basketball team.
Kansas is still considered the "wheat state" and Sedgewick County, where Wichita is located, is the largest wheat producing county in the state. Eventually, the name was shortened simply to the Shockers. And the costumed mascot? The mascot depicts a shock, or bundle, of wheat. In , the student who won a contest to design a Shockers mascot said that "the school needed a mascot who gave a tough impression
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