Why do they call uva the wahoos

Wahoo — Unofficial mascot of UVA. The name stuck, and is now the unofficial mascot of the University of Virginia. Source of several terrible puns, i. Hoo wants to do homework with me!? Hoo wishes I would stop using this pun!? JK, long live the puns! Wahoo wah! To be shouted as part of the following chant, fist pumping a la Jersey Shore, upon the conclusion of the Good Old Song:.

Hoo rah ray! Ray, ray, UVA! This series of wahs and hoorahs are an excellent way of expressing your excitement at sports games or any other time you want to show a little bit of school spirit. In a grocery store parking lot as a Tech fan scowls at your UVA bumper sticker, for example.

To be sung arm in arm with those around you at the conclusion of any game, when the football team scores a touchdown, when any relatively sentimental event Lighting of the Lawn, Convocation, Graduation, etc. Lyrics are as follows:. It cheers our hearts and warms our blood to hear them shout and roar. We come from old Virginia where all is bright and gay. But, like, probably?? And according to official UVA publications, the legend does not derive from Dartmouth. The student audience decided to join in the refrain of the song and by the end of the play the crowd turned the words "Where'er You Are" into "Wah Hoo Wah.

Categories : University of Virginia. Wahoos From Academic Kids. Toolbox Special pages. We are Wahoos or 'Hoos. Not only does the school song begin with "That good old song of Wahoowa," and offers no mention of Cavaliers in it, but every single school cheer or chant only uses Wahoos or 'Hoos. Cavaliers has morphed into being only the school's mascot, but Wahoos and 'Hoos has become the popular nickname of the fan base and who we are.

Only the traditional print media, and our own radio play-by-play announcer, seem to have difficulty understanding the aforementioned. I personally like the dual identity. It makes it feel more personal when visitors have to ask that question. Some of the "older" fans may also remember when they broke out "The Hoo" mascot some years back.

While I may be wrong with this, I seem to remember someone saying that it was a test run to see if it would be the normal mascot. I DO, however, remember that it was something really goofy looking running along the sidelines and was happy that it faded away quickly.