Meet one of North America’s youngest professional mascots

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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