Editing Huntington, West Virginia (section)

==Sports==
[[File:Mountain Health Arena 2021.jpg|thumb|[[Mountain Health Arena]]]]

===Professional sports===
The [[Mountain Health Arena]] was formerly the home of the [[River Cities LocoMotives]] (2001) and the [[Huntington Hammer]] (2011–2012), both members of the [[Ultimate Indoor Football League]], and the [[Huntington Heroes]] indoor football team in the [[American Indoor Football League]] (2006–2008).

Huntington has a long history of [[baseball]] clubs, starting with the Huntington Blue Sox (1911–1916). Other clubs include: the Huntington Boosters (1931–1933, 1937 & 1939), the Huntington Red Birds (1934–1936), the Huntington Bees (1938), the Huntington Aces (1940–1941), the Huntington Jewels (1942), and the [[Huntington Cubs]] (1990–1994). The [[Huntington Cubs]] played in the [[Appalachian League]], and were affiliated with the [[Chicago Cubs]]. Their home stadium was at [[St. Cloud Commons]].<ref name="parks">{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20101028102419/http://digitalballparks.com/Appalachian/StCloud.html St. Cloud Commons]}} at digitalballparks.com, URL accessed October 15, 2009. 10/15/09</ref> A new summer league club, [[Tri-State Coal Cats]] (2024-present), was announced on February 15, 2024. They are part of the Appalachian League and will share a home field with Marshall University baseball at the newly erected Jack Cook Field.

===Collegiate===
[[File:Striping the Joan C. Edwards Stadium.jpg|thumb|[[Joan C. Edwards Stadium]], 2016]]
[[Marshall University]]'s sports teams are known as the [[Marshall Thundering Herd]]. The school colors are kelly green and white. Marshall participates in [[NCAA Division I-A|FBS]] for [[American football|football]] as a member of the [[Sun Belt Conference]]. The name Thundering Herd came from a [[Zane Grey]] novel released in 1925, and a silent movie of the same name two years later. Marshall teams were originally known as the Indians, and the green-white colors came in 1903, replacing black and blue. ''[[The Herald-Dispatch]]'' sports editor Carl "Duke" Ridgley tagged the team with the Thundering Herd name, but many other nicknames were suggested over the next thirty years, including Boogercats, Big Green, Green Gobblers, Rams, Judges, and others. In 1965, students, alums, and faculty settled on Thundering Herd in a vote, and Big Green was given to the athletic department's fund-raising wing.

Sports at the school include women's [[softball]], [[swimming (sport)|swimming]] and [[Diving (sport)|diving]], [[tennis]], [[volleyball]], and [[track and field]]; men's [[American football|football]], [[baseball]]; and teams for both genders in [[basketball]], [[cross country running|cross country]], [[golf]], and [[soccer]].<ref name="herdzone" /> Marshall also fields club teams, not affiliated with the MU Athletic Department, in [[rugby union]] for both women and men, men's and women's [[lacrosse]], and an equestrian team that competes in the [[Intercollegiate Horse Show Association]].

===Other sports===
Huntington was also home to the Huntington Stars (1939–1941), the [[Huntington Hornets]] (1956–1957), and the [[Huntington Blizzard]] (1993–2000) ice hockey teams. The [[Huntington Blizzard|Blizzard]] played at the [[Mountain Health Arena]], the Hornets played at the [[Veterans Memorial Fieldhouse]], and the Stars played at the former Iceland Arena. Marshall University has a club ice hockey team.

Huntington is home to the Jewel City Roller Girls, a women's roller derby team that was founded in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewelcityrollergirls.com|title=Jewel City Rollergirls|access-date=October 8, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141013173659/http://www.jewelcityrollergirls.com/|archive-date=October 13, 2014}}</ref>