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In 2001, the UCF Alma Mater Society established the Pegasus Mascot Program to provide both riders as well as horses for the role as Pegasus and the UCF Knight. Every fall semester students are eligible to submit applications to become the UCF Knight, but only the best riders at UCF are accepted.
3 lut 2015 · The horses aren’t the only ones who are trained, however. Carla Cordoba, ’94, associate director of constituent programs at the UCF Alumni Association, has been the advisor for the Pegasus Mascot Team since its inception. During that time, she’s overseen five horses and about 15 Knights.
In 2001, the UCF Alma Mater Society established the Pegasus Mascot Program to provide both riders as well as horses for the role as Pegasus and the UCF Knight. Every fall semester students are eligible to submit applications to become the UCF Knight, but only the best riders at UCF are accepted.
Pegasus. Our seal, Pegasus, dates back to 1968 when we were known as Florida Technological University. “Pegasus was the mythological winged horse of the muses. He carried their hopes, their inspirations and their poetry into the skies,” explained Dr. Millican, the university’s president at the time.
In 1970, FTU’s athletics program finally had a nickname, the Knights. And the students had a logo to rally behind, a democratically chosen design that allied the mascot with the university seal’s mythological winged horse, Pegasus.
13 mar 2023 · In 1970, a student vote resulted in the program adopting “Knights of Pegasus” as UCF’s nickname. Despite attempts in 1988 and 1993 to rebrand as the “Sharks,” the names — and the Knights mascot — have held firm.
26 sty 2015 · The university’s current “Pegasus” is a 24-year-old Gray Arabian gelding, also known as Clemmy in the stables, who joined the mascot team in August 2013. His job in the former Arabian Nights dinner show was to rear off the bad guy.
