2021年8月24日 · John Chaney, the president of the KCU Student Council, started the Kangaroo Party of the University of Kansas City with the platform to adopt the kangaroo as the university’s official mascot. In the fall of 1937, Kasey Kangaroo was born.

2021年4月19日 · The UMKC campus community will celebrate the resilience of the Roo spirit at a campus dedication of a new Roo statue by Kansas City artist Tom Corbin. UMKC campus historian Chris Wolff recalls the history of the Roo mascot and the role students have played in developing past campus traditions.

2023年5月23日 · Did you know that UMKC’s kangaroo has roo-ts back to the 1930s? Here’s how the zoo, Walt Disney, and university students came up with the mascot. Disney’s 1938 roo (left), the first official Kasey (1963), and 2019’s Fighting Roo (right). Did you realize it’s a girl? How did the University of Missouri-Kansas City land on a kangaroo for its mascot?

2015年10月8日 · Not only is a kangaroo perhaps an unusual choice for a mascot it also became the university mascot even before the university had any sports teams! The story of the kangaroo began in 1936 with a series of articles in the Kansas City Star about the Swope Park Zoo acquiring two baby kangaroos.

2020年1月24日 · Get to Know KC Roo! Height: Reaching all the heights with my hops! Weight: Boxer Status Age: Is just a number! Born: Sometime in 1936 ( read more about KC Ro...

2020年1月24日 · KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Kansas City Athletics introduced a new-look mascot with a different name today (Jan. 25) at the women's basketball game – "KC Roo." As Kansas City Athletics transformed their brand identity to the Kansas City Roos in June, 2019, the mascot is now changing from "Kasey the Kangaroo" to KC Roo.

2021年4月30日 · 123 likes, 1 comments - umkcinkansascity on April 30, 2021: ""A kangaroo is not a typical mascot, but we aren't your typical campus." See the full behind-the-scenes making of our newest Roo statue and learn about the traditions that got us to where we are.".

2021年4月26日 · The University of Missouri-Kansas City added a little artwork to campus Monday. UMKC students are known as Roos, so a sculpture of it’s mascot, a kangaroo, couldn’t be more fitting.

As part of Chancellor C. Mauli Agrawal’s investiture, the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) Student Government Association gifted the school with an iron kangaroo statue by noted artist Tom Corbin, providing campus with a beautiful physical representation of the university’s mascot, the Roo.To announce its arrival and share the rich ...

In the early years of the University of Kansas City, the school lacked a mascot. There are several myths of how the Kangaroo came to eventually serve that role, but by the late 1930s the Roo had become the symbol of the school.