University of Utah Swoop - Salt Lake City, Utah
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N 40° 45.763 W 111° 50.382
12T E 429126 N 4512755
Swoop is a red-tailed hawk and has been the mascot for the University of Utah since 1996.
Waymark Code: WM15NKN
Location: Utah, United States
Date Posted: 01/28/2022
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This statue of Swoop...a red-tailed hawk...depicts him standing behind a bench at the entrance to the Jon M. Huntsman Center on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
Wikipedia (
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"Swoop, a red-tailed hawk, is the mascot of the Utah Utes sports teams. The university introduced Swoop with the consent of the tribal council of the Ute tribe in 1996.[1] Originally the school's mascot was an American Indian, but was dropped. Later Hoyo, a cartoon Indian Boy, became an unofficial mascot, but was also dropped. During the 1980s the Crimson Warrior, a Caucasian horseman dressed in Indian costume, would ride onto the field before home football games and plant a lance into a bale of hay. The warrior was considered more a symbol of the school than a mascot."