{"id":28464,"date":"2025-08-07T13:21:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T17:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=28464"},"modified":"2025-08-07T13:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T17:51:16","slug":"annual-herd-rally-set-for-friday-aug-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2025\/08\/annual-herd-rally-set-for-friday-aug-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Herd Rally set for Friday, Aug. 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Marshall University will kick off the school year and the start of fall sports with their Herd Rally at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 15, on Ninth Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues in Huntington.<\/p>\n<p>Herd Rally is part of Kindred Communications\u2019 9th Street Live Celebration and will feature Madhouse. At 8 p.m., Marshall\u2019s Marching Thunder will march onto 9th Street to kick off the pep rally portion of the evening.<\/p>\n<p>The pep rally will feature Marshall athletes and coaches, including the Thundering Herd football team. Marshall University\u2019s mascot, Marco, will be meeting fans and available for photos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHerd Rally is a great event for Marshall fans and the Huntington community,\u201d said Mallory Jarrell, director of Branding and Events. \u201cThis annual event is a perfect opportunity for students new to campus and those who have been fans for years to come together to celebrate the Marshall family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Herd Rally is a free event open to all community members.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall University will kick off the school year and the start of fall sports with their Herd Rally at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 15, on Ninth Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues in Huntington. Herd Rally is part of Kindred Communications\u2019 9th Street Live Celebration and will feature Madhouse. At 8 p.m., Marshall\u2019s Marching Thunder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28465,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28464\/revisions\/28465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}