According to the UTSA website, the school held an election in 1977 to determine its school mascot. Other potential mascots under consideration included armadillos, stars, eagles, jaguars, puma ...

Now, "The American" is the official name of the 14-team conference, and its rebrand is represented by a beefed-up generic ...

The American Athletic Conference has rebranded as the American Conference and will have a live mascot, an eagle named "Soar," ...

The American Athletic Conference is no more. In a rebranding move, the league officially announced it will now be known simply as the American Conference -- or, more casually, the American. It also ...

James Wagener, UTSA's third president, oversaw many important developments in the university's history. Among those developments was the birth of UTSA Athletics and the university's beloved mascot, ...