Best high school mascot in West Virginia: Top 5 candidates

If every hyphenated school used its initials as its nickname, there’d be a whole lot more competitors with the Eagles and Tigers as the most common team name. But they don’t, so the Cee Bees stand out.

A whole bunch of Dons exist in the high school sports world, but in the spirit of Madonna herself, these are the most colorful of the bunch. 

Several high schools in the U.S. go by the Hillbillies, but no city name makes it work quite like Man, West Virginia.

Musselman High School is named for Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Musselman, who owned and operated the Musselman apple processing plant that made Musselman's Applesauce. The school mascot changed from the Dragons to the Applemen in 1951 to honor the Musselman family. The physical mascot is a Red Delicious Apple, and the school newspaper is called The Cider Press.

On Friday nights, you can find a mean-looking red dot with arms and legs patrolling the sidelines for Poca. The school received its fitting nickname nearly a century ago from a local reporter, and it's stuck ever since.