Georgia southern university mascot gus the eagle. Gus is the mascot of georgia southern university and can be seen at most university events. Gus has also been nominated in the past as espns favorite mascot. Georgia southern university has embarked on a bold journey where no eagle has ever gone before.
Ultimately our emblem found itself on the endangered species list. Policies and request form updated july 1 2018 gus loves seeing the eagle nation and would love gus eagle mascot request form georgia southern university athletics skip to main content. Georgia southern university gs is a public research university in the us.
Southern pride as georgia southern universitys marching band southern pride is two hundred members strong and celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2007. Its flagship campus is in statesboro and other locations include the armstrong campus in savannah and the liberty campus in hinesvillefounded in 1906 as a land grant college georgia southern is the fifth largest institution in the university system of georgia and is the largest center of higher. In addition to grocery items and snacks gus mart at it offer.
Eagles in georgia like the peregrine falcon brown pelican and other species our national symbol suffered a great fall due to pesticides ddt employed by man during the 1950 60s. Marching bandhoop troop traditions gus request form gus birthday bash. Georgia southern university adopted the eagle as its symbol in 1960.
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Gus the universitys mascot has landed safely after being launched into the stratosphere on a mission to promote stem science technology engineering and math learning. Account login ticket central clear bag policy group tickets student tickets suites ticketevent policies wings ticket donations eagle seats ticket promotions discounts baseball tickets. Gus has visited the georgia capitol posing with business and political leaders and other dignitaries as an ambassador for the university.
The georgia southern eagles are the athletic teams of georgia southern universitythe eagles compete in the division i football bowl subdivision fbs formerly i a and are members of the ncaa division i sun belt conferenceprior to joining the sun belt conference in 2014 the eagles were members of the trans america athletic conference presently known as the atlantic sun conference and the. The official athletics website for the georgia southern university eagles. Information technology building statesboros newest location of gus mart is located in the information technology building next to market street deli on the statesboro campus.
Gus has even been an espn favorite mascot nominee.