https://www.wvhistoryonview.org/catalog/037182https://www.wvhistoryonview.org/image/037182.jpgPortrait of Natalie Tennant1990College students--West Virginia--Morgantown.Mountaineer (Mascot)WVU--Student Portraits--T-Z.Sports team mascots--West Virginia--Morgantown.WVU's first female Mountaineer mascot. One of seven children raised on a family farm in Marion County and the second girl in her family to be her high school mascot, Natalie Tennant sees her role as WVU Mountaineer as part of a longstanding family legacy. In her public appearances, she reminder her audiences, "Our grandmothers and Great-grandmothers were Mountaineers way before I was."West Virginia History OnView