Taking inspiration from such silent film personalities as Charlie Chaplin’s the Tramp, Mickey is traditionally characterized as a sympathetic underdog who gets by on pluck and ingenuity. The longtime mascot of The Walt Disney Company, Mickey is an anthropomorphic mouse who typically wears red shorts, large yellow shoes, and white gloves. “All the comments like, ‘My new favorite team,’ or, ‘I’m really cheering for Santa Clara this year,’ or trying to learn more about us is really cool.Mickey Mouse is an animated cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. “The sport doesn’t really get that much recognition in general, so it’s really cool that people are interested,” Dupree said. They hope that can translate to more love for cross country runners.
It was really great that we could all engage with it and really buy into it as a team.”Īnd now, even though many of the Broncos have trimmed or shaved their mustaches or crazy hairdos, they’ve gained popularity and a bit of notoriety on the Jesuit campus. “We’re all a great team and there’s a lot of team chemistry that goes on. “We’re all pretty goofy guys,” Chilcott said. So it helps to have cohesion, and the viral tweets posts make it clear the Broncos have that. In cross country, though, the whole point is running long distances.Ĭollege cross country is a team sport in which the team with the fastest group of five runners wins. Chavez recalled a saying that’s popular in cross country: “My sport is your sport’s punishment,” a nod to coaches in other sports who use running laps as a penalty for mistakes made. “Year after year, they kept the tradition going, and I would say the latest round of headshots are some of their best work.”Īdmittedly, the world of running surely brings out the goofballs. “We did a whole roundup of the team portraits and it was a hit,” Chavez said. Santa Clara Cross Country/Track & Field September 28, 2022 Founder Chris Chavez has seen plenty of wild headshot photos – a fun tradition that exists throughout collegiate cross country – but Santa Clara is the one program that always stood out.Ī little behind the scenes look at how one of our famous haircuts came to be! /b4hXkuoZQy Santa Clara’s mustachioed roster was well known within cross country, thanks especially to Citius, a website that focuses on covering the running world. I was just like, ‘Yeah, I think it’s good.’” Are you sure you want to keep that?’ And I couldn’t even look him in the face because I was laughing too hard. “When I took my picture, was like, ‘Oh, that’s a really unnatural smile. “Every year, you go back and look and see the growth you’ve had since freshman year, both literally,” - as in, more hair for the ‘stache - “and in how much funnier the pictures can be.”ĭupree, who had red hair and a goofy smile for his picture this year, can attest to that. “This is one of the lasting too, because you get pictures of it forever,” Litoff said. Litoff admitted he needed all three months to grow a mustache for his freshman year picture. It’s why the mustache talk begins months before team photo day, to give the more follically challenged teammates time to grow whatever they can on their upper lip. Yes, it is a joke, but yes, they very much are the real photos the runners use for their headshots on the Santa Clara website. “When you’re getting recruited and you look at the roster pictures, you feel like, ‘Some of these have to be a joke,’” redshirt senior Zach Litoff said.
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