Symbolism: Associated with countries and regions | Associated with sport | Miscellaneous
001 – “North Shore Honu” is a Hawaiian baseball team that played in 2006-2008 – “honu” in Hawaiian means turtle, which is also strongly reflected in the team’s logo.
Sources: Wikipedia, hawaiiwinterbaseball.com (kopia strony z archive.org)
002 – Beloit Snappers is a minor league baseball team, of course named after the “snapping Turtle” – due to the fact that Beloit is a city very closely related with turtles.
Sources: Wikipedia, milb.com
003 – The logo of the football team “Desportivo Estância Baixo” (playing for the Cape Verde league) features a sea turtle.
Sources: Wikipedia, thefinalball.com
004 – The mascot of the Japanese band “Oita Trinita” is the turtle, Neetan.
Sources: Wikipedia, oita-trinita.co.jp
005 – There was a turtle in the logo of the “2013 Mediterranean Games” held in Turkey, and the mascot of this event was turtle named Karetta (a name referring to the Caretta Carretta species).
Sources: Wikipedia, eubcboxing.org
006 – The “Illibuck Trophy” – for which Illinois Fighting Illini football team and Ohio State Buckeyes football compete – is in the shape of a turtle.
Sources: Wikipedia, thechampaignroom.com
007 – In the name and logo of the hockey team “TMH Żółwie Piła” there is of course a turtle (“żółwie” is polish word for a turtles).
Sources: facebook.com, , eurohockey.com
008 – A group of runners from Bydgoszcz, called “Bydgoskie Żółwie”, has a logo in its logo, and thus also on a shirts etc. (“żółwie” is polish word for a turtles)
Sources: bydgoskiezolwie.blogspot.com
009 – The mascot of the University of Maryland is “Testudo“, the turtle. Because of this, various university sports teams have names that are based on the principle of “Maryland Terrapins + name of the sport”, where Terrapins is of course a reference to turtles. There are baseball, soccer, basketball, volleyball, field hockey, tennis, gymnastics and many more teams.
Sources: Wikipedia, umd.edu, umterps.com
010 – The American football team from Korea’s Dong-eui University is called “Turtle Fighters”.
Sources: Wikipedia, turtlefighters.skynet.co.kr
