athletic department's fund-raising wing.
Marshall is home to 15 NCAA Division I teams that compete within the Sun Belt. Sports at the school include women's softball, swimming and diving, tennis, volleyball, and track and field; men's football, baseball; and teams for both genders in basketball, cross country, golf, and soccer.
Marshall began playing football in 1895 and has a long tradition as a football school. The plane crash on November 14, 1970, whose 75 victims included most of the 1970 Thundering Herd football team, continues to have a lasting impact on the university and Huntington community.
In 2020, the men's soccer team won the National Championship after defeating Indiana, 1–0, in the 2020 NCAA Division I men's soccer championship game.
== Student life ==
Marshall is home to over more than 200 student organizations and clubs.
Student media includes an on-campus radio station WMUL-FM 88.1, and The Parthenon, the student newspaper.
There are 15 chapters of fraternities and sororities on campus. …
