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Graduating senior cheerleader and Wildcat mascot Ross Boggess poses for a photo in Memorial Coliseum on UKs campus in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Jordan Prather | Staff

Unmasking the Wildcat: Ross Boggess’s ‘rewarding’ experience

Bailey Vandiver May 3, 2019

The Wildcat walked off the field at the football stadium, the surrounding stands empty. Inside the suit was Ross Boggess, and he was about to take it off for the last time.It wasn’t a football game...

The Wildcat mascot helps pump up students during Big Blue U at Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington , Ky., on Friday, August 23, 2013. Photo by Eleanor Hasken | Staff

A walk on the wild-cat side

Lexington Souers October 5, 2016

“And they fought like Wildcats”  With that remark, Commandant Carbusier, head of UK’s military department at the time, coined the nickname that would become the university’s mascot.According to...

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