The finalization of UND's new Fighting Hawks logo is about two weeks behind schedule.

Director of Brand Strategy and Development Conor O'Flaherty of SME Inc., the company working with the school to create the logo, said the delay is due to UND's men's hockey team competing in and winning the Frozen Four championship last month.

O'Flaherty said this means the logo will be finalized in mid-June instead of late May but the change won't have any impact on the planned rollout for the fall 2016 school year.

"We just slipped off timeline simply for the nice reason of UND going to win a national hockey championship, which tended to distract a lot of people," he said.

While budget cuts at the university have recently been finalized, O'Flaherty said he was never told that was the reason for the delay.

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"We had heard about budget cuts and that's been obvious that has taken up time, but it wasn't communicated, noticed or felt," he said.

UND played under the Fighting Sioux logo until December 2012. The new Fighting Hawks nickname was selected in 2015.