National high school mascot bracket, Round 1: Vote for Morse Shipbuilders or Clay-Battelle Cee Bees

Morse (Maine) is a 7 seed and Clay-Battelle (West Virginia) is a 10 seed in the first round

Mike Swanson | Mar 18, 2025

The Morse Shipbuilders (Maine) take on the Clay-Battelle Cee Bees (West Virginia) in Round 1. / Graphic by Jesus Baca

The bracket is set for High School on SI's 2025 NCAA Tournament-style contest to determine the best high school mascot in America, and Round 1 is underway.

Vote below for the No. 7-seeded Morse Shipbuilders (Maine) or the No. 10-seeded Clay-Battelle Cee Bees (West Virginia) to advance to the second round.

The winner will face either the Choate Rosemary Hall Wild Boars (Connecticut) or Hutto Hippos (Texas).

The Shipbuilders earned a 7 seed by winning our statewide Maine contest with 753 votes, while the Cee Bees won West Virginia with 78 votes to earn a 10 seed.

Follow along: National Mascot Tournament 2025 Bracket

Voting for this matchup will conclude Tuesday, March 25, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time.

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7. Morse Shipbuilders (Maine)

Bath, Maine, home of Morse High School, became a haven for shipbuilding in the early 1600s, so the choice of Shipbuilders for Morse's mascot was an easy one.

10. Clay-Battelle Cee Bees (West Virginia)

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.

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Published Mar 18, 2025

MIKE SWANSON

Mike Swanson is the VP of Content for High School On SI. He's been in journalism since 2003, having worked as a reporter, city editor, copy editor and high school sports editor in California, Connecticut and Oregon.