Austin Peay State University announces APSU Bass Tournament set for May 13th
March 16, 2017
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Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University has announced that the 24th annual APSU Governors Bass Tournament will be held Saturday, May 13th, 2017 at Kentucky Lake, with registration and boat launching from Paris Landing (Tennessee) State Park. Last season’s tourney drew nearly 200 boats.
More than $12,000 dollars in prize money will be awarded. Previously, the Top 25 places earned cash prizes but now only the Top 10 places will gain monetary awards, meaning greater cash payouts, respectively, for those positions.
Husband/wife team of Frank and Connie Fisher from Clarksville came in First Place at the21st Annual APSU Governors Bass Tournament.
Clarksville to Host 2017 Tennessee Future Stars Football Games
March 15, 2017
7th and 8th grade games to bring 5,880 people and $3.4 million economic impact
Clarksville, TN – On the heels of announcing that the city will host the 2017 Toyota East West All-Star Classic, Visit Clarksville officials have landed another state-wide football event for 2017. The Tennessee Future Stars will host their annual Tennessee-Kentucky games for seventh and eighth graders in Clarksville on June 17th at Austin Peay State University’s Fortera Stadium.
“We are excited to host another major football event here in Clarksville at Austin Peay,” said Visit Clarksville Executive Director Theresa Harrington. “I can’t emphasize enough how important the upgrades to Fortera Stadium and the cooperation of the APSU athletic staff have been to recruiting football events.”
APSU’s Fortera Stadium
Austin Peay State University, Dickson County School System announce dual enrollment partnership
March 15, 2017
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University is partnering with the Dickson County School System to provide an opportunity for high school students from both Creek Wood and Dickson County High Schools to take college courses at a central Dickson County location.
Students would attend college classes taught by APSU faculty in the morning at the central location and return to their respective high school for lunch and afternoon classes.
Austin Peay State University Campus. (APSU)
APSU repurposes programs and building in response to area’s needs
March 15, 2017
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University has retooled its engineering technology program Over the last year and is in the process of repurposing its Technology Building (formerly the Hemlock Semiconductor Building), to meet the growing manufacturing needs of the state.
Engineering technology students work in the classroom at the Austin Peay. (Beth Liggett, APSU)
Austin Peay State University’s Woodward Library Society’s 9th Society Social to be held April 1st
March 14, 2017
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University’s Woodward Library Society will host its ninth annual Society Social, featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jackie Crosby on Saturday, April 1st, 2017.
Crosby, now a reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, won a Pulitzer Prize for specialized reporting in 1985 while working for the Macon Telegraph and News.
The Woodward Library Society is dedicated to the advancement of the Felix G. Woodward Library of Austin Peay State University.
APSU Beef Cattle Show Team wins Second National Championship
March 13, 2017
Clarksville, TN – The Austin Peay State University Beef Cattle Show Team is barely older than the livestock it shows, but the program has quickly made a name for itself as a competitor on the local, state and national levels.
They only reinforced that reputation when Ruby, the team’s prize heifer, or young female cow, was named Reserve Division Champion Percentage Simmental at the 2017 Dixie National Livestock show, held this past February in Jackson, Mississippi.
APSU Beef Cattle Show Team’s prize heifer Ruby was named Reserve Division Champion Percentage at the 2017 Dixie National Livestock show.
Austin Peay State University Department of Music’s Day Camp “Camp Granada” set for sixth year
March 11, 2017
Clarksville, TN – As it prepares for its sixth year, Camp Granada, Austin Peay State University Department of Music’s summer music day camp, continues to expand its mission of providing area children with an opportunity to develop a life-long love of music.
The theme for Camp Granada 2017 is “Kids at Work,” and students will explore the history of music in the workplace.
The campus of Austin Peay State University. (APSU)
APSU named Best Nonprofit at Nashville Business Journal’s 2017 Best in Business Awards
March 10, 2017
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University was announced as the Nashville Business Journal’s Best in Business: Nonprofit winner at the organization’s 2017 Best in Business Awards Luncheon, held Tuesday, March 7th at the Music City Center in Nashville.
Nashville Business Journal names Austin Peay State University as Best Nonprofit at ’s 2017 Best in Business Awards. (APSU)
“Ain’t I a Woman!” to headline Asanbe Diversity Symposium at Austin Peay State University on March 16th
March 2, 2017
Clarksville, TN – Slated for next month at Austin Peay State University, The Asanbe Diversity Symposium will spotlight the lives of four powerful African American women with a performance of “Ain’t I a Woman!” by nationally acclaimed performance group, The Core Ensemble.
The performance takes place on March 16th at 1:00pm in the Trahern Theatre. A panel discussion will take place at 2:30pm in the Wilbur N. Daniel African-American Cultural Center. The Asanbe Diversity Symposium is free and open to the public.
Austin Peay State University Trahern Building. (APSU)
Austin Peay State University student newspaper staff wins 10 awards at Southeast Journalism Conference
March 2, 2017
Clarksville, TN – The Austin Peay State University student newspaper, The All State, earned 10 awards from the Southeast Journalism Conference, including first place and second place for Best Press Photography, during the annual conference in Oxford, Mississippi on Friday, February 17th, 2017.
The All State staff won 10 awards Friday at Southeast Journalism Conference.
