{"id":34722,"date":"2018-08-24T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/sports\/juneau-united-gains-steam-as-unified-football-team-name\/"},"modified":"2018-08-24T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T17:48:00","slug":"juneau-united-gains-steam-as-unified-football-team-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/juneau-united-gains-steam-as-unified-football-team-name\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Juneau United’ gains steam as unified football team name"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students on the Juneau unified football team, Juneau Football, are reportedly adopting the name “Juneau United” for their team.<\/p>\n

Gretchen Kriegmont is on the president of the Juneau Football Board. She said the name “Juneau United” started out as a fundraising theme for the booster club but caught on with the players. Kriegmont said the team put up the name to a team vote in the last two weeks and the majority of players voted for it.<\/p>\n

“It kind of started as a theme and then the boys really liked it and it grew into an unofficial team name,” Kriegmont said.<\/p>\n

Juneau School District Chief of Staff Kristin Bartlett said Friday the student body will have the final say in whether or not to officially adopt the name.<\/p>\n

The team was originally dubbed the “Thunder Bears” in February after the school district put three mascot options — the Thunder Bears, Orcas and Capital City Senators — to a student vote. It wouldn’t be long though before a derogatory online definition of the mascot<\/a> drew the ire of some and led to student representatives voting 5-4 in favor of selecting a new mascot.<\/p>\n

The name United isn’t completely foreign to the sports world. Manchester United, a professional soccer team in England, is one of the most renowned franchises in sports, and other soccer clubs have taken the moniker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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