Pasco-Hernando State College Annual Report 2017 | Page 15

BOOMER ENTERS DEN WITH PRIDE Boomer officially landed in Bobcat Country at the February 2018 District Board of Trustees meeting. Several members of the June 2019 SUN MON TUES WED THUR FRI former PHSC cheer team introduced the new SAT 1 PHSC mascot, Boomer—an event captured on video and broadcast on social media. PHSC students, faculty and staff and community members were encouraged to submit mascot name recommendations 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 21 22 28 29 throughout the summer of 2017. A mascot committee, led by PHSC Athletic Director Steve Winterling, made the final name selection in October 2017. After months in development, Boomer took shape as Student Life and Leadership and Marketing and Communications went to work building Flag Day the new PHSC spirit identity and designing the mascot character, who now appears at many college and athletic events. #BobcatPride is evident on social media 16 17 18 19 District Board of Trustees Meeting • NC Foundation Board of Directors Quarterly Meeting • EC 25 26 20 and at each PHSC campus—from campus banners, signs, T-shirts and umbrellas to the Father’s Day occasional sighting of Boomer—you know you have entered Bobcat Country. 23 30 24 First Day of Summer 27