Conference announces new site for 2018, 2019 basketball championships
Jacob Griffith, Reporter
May 16, 2017
Filed under Men's Basketball, SPORTS, Women's Basketball
The 2018 and 2019 Conference USA Basketball Championships will be held at Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas, commissioner Judy MacLeod announced in a press conference Tuesday. Ford Center at The Star is the home of the Dallas Cowboys’ world headquarters. “It’s really an exciting ...
Eight Marshall athletic programs earn perfect NCAA academic progress rate scores
Jacob Griffith, Reporter
May 10, 2017
Filed under Showcase, SPORTS
The National Collegiate Athletic Association released their latest academic progress rate scores, the NCAA announced Wednesday. Eight of Marshall University’s athletic programs earned a perfect single-year score of 1,000 for the 2015-2016 calendar year. The Herd men’s cross country, women’s ba...
Student athletes sprint through Dead Week
Patrick O'Leary, Reporter
April 27, 2017
Filed under SPORTS
The most stressful time of the year is upon Marshall University students; dead week and finals week. For most students, this is already an incredibly tough time. For student-athletes, add in games, meets, practices and training and the time is only tougher. The weekend in between dead and finals week...
Track and Field partakes in prestigious Penn Relays
Patrick O'Leary, Reporter
April 27, 2017
Filed under SPORTS, Track and Field
The Marshall University track and field team prepares for no ordinary meet this weekend, which began Thursday. The team will send athletes to the oldest and largest track and field meet in the United States for the 123rd annual Penn Relays at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “This is...
Quarterbacks coach Todd Goebbel at center of quarterback decision
Patrick O'Leary, Reporter
April 20, 2017
Filed under Football, SPORTS
The starting quarterback for the Marshall University football team may be unclear to the public as spring football winds down. The man working closest with the quarterbacks and who likely has the best idea of anyone; co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Todd Goebbel. Goebbel has spent two...
Ellis having continued success off the field
Caroline Kimbro, Contributer
April 17, 2017
Filed under Softball, SPORTS
The cliché of winning on and off the field is as old as sports reporting, but Hayden Ellis exemplifies these qualities. If one were to look up the Marshall University softball team, Ellis would be found listed on the roster. And upon clicking on Ellis’ name, one would find basic information about...
Thundering Herd, Mountaineers to meet in Charleston for non-conference showdown
Patrick O'Leary, Reporter
April 17, 2017
Filed under Baseball, SPORTS
Marshall University Athletics is offering a bus ride headed to Appalachian Power Park in Charleston Tuesday to watch the baseball game between Marshall and West Virginia University. The bus ride is free for all Marshall students. Students must pick up their ticket for the game and a bus pass at the Henderson...
Herd looks for success at Virginia Challenge
Patrick O'Leary, Reporter
April 13, 2017
Filed under SPORTS, Track and Field
After an abnormal weekend off last Friday and Saturday, the Marshall University track and field team returns to action this weekend. The team will compete Saturday in the William Walton Invitational in Harrisonburg, Virginia hosted by James Madison University. Prior to last weekend off, the team had...
Baseball, Softball take crucial conference trip to Florida
Patrick O'Leary, Reporter
April 13, 2017
Filed under Baseball, Softball, SPORTS
The Marshall University softball and baseball teams head to Florida for important series this weekend in Conference USA play. The softball team heads to Miami for a three-game set against Florida International. The baseball team meanwhile travels to Boca Raton for a three-game set against Florida Atlantic....
Baker aims to replicate success at Huntington
Luke Creasy, Contributer
April 10, 2017
Filed under Football, SPORTS
Newly hired Marshall wide receivers coach, Dallas Baker, has been around football nearly his entire life. After winning a National Championship with the University of Florida in 2007 and a Super Bowl two years later with the Pittsburgh Steelers, Baker has finally fulfilled his lifelong dream of becoming...
Softball sweeps Florida Atlantic, surpasses 30 wins for third consecutive year
Patrick O'Leary, Reporter
April 10, 2017
Filed under Softball, SPORTS
The Marshall University softball team was already turning heads on the national level before this past weekend’s series against Florida Atlantic, as the team had been receiving votes in the national top-25 rankings. However, after a convincing three-game sweep of the Owls at Dot Hicks Softball Fie...
Marshall baseball to host home games Tuesday and Wednesday
Patrick O'Leary, Reporter
April 10, 2017
Filed under Baseball, SPORTS
The Marshall University baseball team returns home for back-to-back games Tuesday and Wednesday. Tuesday, the team faces off with Morehead State, while Wednesday the team goes up against Ohio University. The Herd succeeded in what outfield Sam Finfer called a “brutal” part of the schedule over the past ...
