Editing Huntington, West Virginia (section)

===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]].