Ditch the traditional, ‘Ladies,’ or create appropriate logos

The girls’ basketball district tournaments are under way. The girls wrestling tournament was held Monday. Spring sports, including softball, along with tennis and track for both the boys and girls will begin in just a few weeks.

Corbin’s Lady Redhounds, Whitley County’s Lady Colonels and Williamsburg’s Lady Jackets were or will be participating in the majority. Williamsburg doesn’t offer wrestling.

Tradition in high schools across Kentucky has been to add “Lady” to the mascot when referring to the girls’ teams.

However, if you look at the logos used for the teams, they are, with few exceptions, the same as the traditional logo.

It is time to either drop the lady part of the name or come up with variations on the logos for the lady’s teams.

Go to the Kentucky High School Athletic Association website and pull up one of the pages for any of the Whitley County girls’ teams and the logo you see is the traditional Colonel with sword drawn and mustache and chin hair.

Nothing lady-like about it.

There has got to be a way to create a Lady Colonel logo. Ditch the facial hair and do the other things necessary for the logo to properly represent the ladies. 

Williamsburg’s Yellow Jacket isn’t a problem as it could represent either the boys or girls.

No doubt, the Corbin Redhound with the sweater and hat is male.

Some bows in her ears or on top of her head instead of the hat, eyelashes and lose the stubble on the muzzle and it makes you think Lady Redhound.

I admit to being used to calling the girls’ teams the Lady… I would be okay just calling them all the Colonels, Hounds or Jackets.

But let’s do one or the other.

A few other things in the world of sports.

• Whitley County’s Anthony Colmus is the last local wrestler standing as the finals of the state wrestling tournament is scheduled to begin Friday in Winchester.

The senior is among the 16 wrestlers remaining in the 138-pound bracket, needing three wins for the state title.

However Colmus finishes the season, it is a great end to the season for him and the Whitley County Wrestling Program.

• The girls’ state wrestling tournament was held Monday in Cynthiana.

Seven girls from Corbin and two from Whitley County took part, including: Corbin’s Chloe Hensley, Allison Neeley, Katie Lewis, Kaitlyn Will, Kamryn Frazier, Abriella Sizemore and Hannah White, and Whitley County’s Patti McIntire and Taya Allen.

Corbin’s Kamryn Frazier and Hannah White finished fourth in their weight classes, while Abriella Sizemore finished sixth.

Congratulations to all of the ladies who represented the area so well. 

The University of the Cumberlands fields a full women’s wrestling team as part of its varsity sports. Hopefully, Corbin and Whitley County are not far behind in filling the 13 weight classes.

• The 13th Region Basketball tournaments will begin Monday at The Arena in Corbin.

The girls will take to the floor Monday and Tuesday night with the boys scheduled to open their tournament on Wednesday and Thursday. Games will begin at 6 and 7:30 p.m. each night.

The girls semi-finals will be March 4 with the championship game set for 7 p.m. on March 5.

The boys’ semi-finals will begin at 1 p.m. on March 5 with the championship game set for 7 p.m. on March 7.

Eight boys and eight girls’ teams from the 49th, 50th, 51st and 52nd districts will compete in the region tournaments with the winners of each advancing to the state tournament at Rupp Arena.