Students at York County’s newest high school will be known as the Lake Wylie High School Chargers.
The Clover School District board voted on the new name and mascot Monday night.
A planned elementary school on the same Cannonball Run property will be Liberty Hill Elementary School. Its mascot will be the Patriots. And the board also voted unanimously on Roosevelt Middle School and the Tigers mascot, with blue and gold as colors, for a new middle school.
The board picked Lake Wylie for the new high school over Iron Hill, Lakeside and Liberty Hill. The school is projected to open in 2026. Colors will be light blue and gold. Other mascot options were the 49ers, Gators, Lions, Miners and Patriots. Chargers was the last option added to the mascot list.
“It was about the power plant and the lake, and why Lake Wylie was even created in the first place was to create electricity,” said board member Jessica Cody.
A community focus group recommended Wylie, Lakeside, East Clover, Lake Wylie or Liberty Hill as potential high school names. A survey last fall with about 2,300 responses had Lake Wylie as the most popular option.