An Ancaster athlete is making waves in an unusual profession and you may have even seen some of his skills already if you’ve watched a Hamilton Tiger-Cats game this season.
Twenty-year-old Cory Field is a mascot on the rise, moving up the ranks as one of North America’s youngest professional mascots.
He first put his college’s mascot costume on as sort of a dare.
“I went to a basketball game one time…and as a joke, I went up to the athletic director…and he said sure. I thought it was one game, but he wanted me to do it the whole two years,” Field said.
And his mascot career took off from there.
Field was on a baseball scholarship in Utica, New York, and enrolled in the school’s theatre program. His flair for dramatics led to him winning a local mascot popularity contest.
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