How did a DRAGON become the mascot of Swartz Creek Schools? 
This is a question that may finally have an answer.

 

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The Swartz Creek Historical Society has been researching a paragraph in the local history book "Going up the Swartz" which stated the name Dragon was used by the Flint Journal when the class C, Mary Crapo football team won the Championship for the seventh straight year in 1946. A review of the 1946 year book and micro film at the Flint Public Library confirmed this. Diane Finn was a teacher who did research on schools for inclusion in the history book in 1976. School year books were named the Spectrum until 1948 when the year book was renamed the Dragon. 

A winning football team, a nickname from the Flint Journal and the rest is history!

Thanks to Bill Morgan of the Swartz Creek Historical Society 
for the information and pictures displayed on this page.

*If you would like more information about the history of Swartz Creek,
 please visit the Swartz Creek Historical Society web site.