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Clarksville, TN<\/strong> – The Austin Peay State University (APSU) ROTC Ranger Challenge team arrived in West Point, New York, on Sunday, ready to compete in its first-ever Sandhurst competition.<\/p>\n\u201cThey\u2019re pretty motivated, and they think they\u2019re going to do really well, and I do too,\u201d Keith Colman, the team\u2019s coach, said. \u201cThey\u2019re real strong. They\u2019ve been training hard for three months now.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The Austin Peay State University ROTC Ranger Challenge team practices on a Zodiac boat at Liberty Park in Clarksville a week before the Sandhurst competition April 12th-13th at West Point, New York. (Benny Little, APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n
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The Sandhurst competition, which is April 12th-13th, will put teams from throughout the world \u201cto the ultimate test of endurance, leadership and military skills as they compete to earn the title,\u201d according to an Army news release.<\/p>\n
Even though the actual competition starts on Friday, the stakes already are high. Teams will participate in a three-person relay on Monday night to determine their starting position on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cTeams will compete in what we are calling an order-of-march relay race,\u201d Maj. Travis Onischuk, officer-in-charge and lead planner for Sandhurst, said in an Army news release. \u201cEach squad leader selects the three fastest members of their team to compete in a relay race. It will generate a rank of 1-49, and those teams will then be able to select their starting positions for Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n
Austin Peay\u2019s team figures to perform well in the relay. Two of the team\u2019s members, Wesley Gray and Thomas Porter, are runners on the University\u2019s cross country team.<\/p>\n
Training At West Point<\/h3>\n![\"Austin](\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Austin-Peay-State-University-ROTC-team-ready-for-Sandhurst-competition-2-480x320.jpg\" "\\"Austin")
<\/a>Austin Peay State University ROTC cadet Kylie Head smiles as she and her teammates propel a Zodiac boat at Liberty Park in Clarksville. (Benny Little, APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n
Austin Peay State University\u2019s team also will train Tuesday and Wednesday at West Point\u2019s obstacle course and shooting ranges and get a chance to practice on Zodiac boats, which the team isn\u2019t new to.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe took advantage of our opportunity being near Fort Campbell to get a Zodiac to get in some practice prior to getting to West Point,\u201d Colman said.<\/p>\n
Cadets also are taking part in the Modern War Institute\u2019s Sandhurst Conference in the days leading up to the competition.<\/p>\n
[320left]APSU team captain Steven Price will receive a briefing about the competition Thursday night, and the competition starts 6:30 a.m. EDT Friday. The competition stretches through the night and ends Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The challenge requires 11-person teams \u2013 nine competitors and two alternates \u2013 to carry a minimum of 35 pounds throughout the course, which likely will surpass last year\u2019s 28-mile route.<\/p>\n
Austin Peay faces tough competition. Last year\u2019s top five finishing teams return this year: the Air Force Academy team (which claimed the title), the Royal Military College-Canada, Sandhurst Red, University of North Georgia and West Point Gold.<\/p>\n
APSU\u2019S Cadets at Sundhurst<\/h3>\n![\"Members](\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Austin-Peay-State-University-ROTC-team-ready-for-Sandhurst-competition-3-480x320.jpg\" "\\"Members")
<\/a>Members of the APSU ROTC Ranger Challenge team. (Benny Little, APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n
Team captain Steven Price, assistant captain Daniel Cole, Brandon Hagens, Brendan Dickinson, Kylie Head, Walter Higbee, Christina Taylor, Wesley Gray, Thomas Porter, Paul Kearney and Thomas Rose are the 11 Ranger Challenge cadets competing at West Point.<\/p>\n
Who’s Competing?<\/h3>\n
Austin Peay is one of 49 teams competing this year.<\/p>\n
\n- 14 International Teams:<\/strong> Australia, Thailand, Canada, Colombia, Chile, Greece, Brazil, Japan, Germany, Mexico, Denmark, United Kingdom, Korea and United Kingdom.<\/li>\n
- 16 ROTC Teams:<\/strong> University of Delaware, Florida State University, Creighton University, Central State University, Marquette State University, University of Hawaii, Austin Peay State University, Utah Valley University, California Polytechnic State University, Virginia Military Institute, John Hopkins University, Tarleton State University, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Lehigh University, University of North Georgia and Ebinboro University.<\/li>\n
- Four service academies:<\/strong> 16 U.S. Military Academy teams, and teams from the U.S. Naval Academy, U.S. Air Force Academy and U.S. Coast Guard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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To Learn More<\/h3>\n\n- For more information about Sandhurst 2019, go to https:\/\/westpoint.edu\/military\/department-of-military-instruction\/sandhurst<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- For more about Austin Peay\u2019s ROTC program, visit https:\/\/www.apsu.edu\/rotc\/<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Austin Peay State University (APSU) Clarksville, TN – The Austin Peay State University (APSU) ROTC Ranger Challenge team arrived in West Point, New York, on Sunday, ready to compete in its first-ever Sandhurst competition. \u201cThey\u2019re pretty motivated, and they think they\u2019re going to do really well, and I do too,\u201d Keith Colman, the team\u2019s coach, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,12466,33445,262,33367,33368,33370,512,825,32879,150,32880,32881,32888,33366,32886,32883,32890,33446,33448,33369,33447,32882,11894],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-73m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27117,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27116\/revisions\/27117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>Austin Peay State University ROTC cadet Kylie Head smiles as she and her teammates propel a Zodiac boat at Liberty Park in Clarksville. (Benny Little, APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n
Austin Peay State University\u2019s team also will train Tuesday and Wednesday at West Point\u2019s obstacle course and shooting ranges and get a chance to practice on Zodiac boats, which the team isn\u2019t new to.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe took advantage of our opportunity being near Fort Campbell to get a Zodiac to get in some practice prior to getting to West Point,\u201d Colman said.<\/p>\n
Cadets also are taking part in the Modern War Institute\u2019s Sandhurst Conference in the days leading up to the competition.<\/p>\n
[320left]APSU team captain Steven Price will receive a briefing about the competition Thursday night, and the competition starts 6:30 a.m. EDT Friday. The competition stretches through the night and ends Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The challenge requires 11-person teams \u2013 nine competitors and two alternates \u2013 to carry a minimum of 35 pounds throughout the course, which likely will surpass last year\u2019s 28-mile route.<\/p>\n
Austin Peay faces tough competition. Last year\u2019s top five finishing teams return this year: the Air Force Academy team (which claimed the title), the Royal Military College-Canada, Sandhurst Red, University of North Georgia and West Point Gold.<\/p>\n
APSU\u2019S Cadets at Sundhurst<\/h3>\n<\/a>Members of the APSU ROTC Ranger Challenge team. (Benny Little, APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n
Team captain Steven Price, assistant captain Daniel Cole, Brandon Hagens, Brendan Dickinson, Kylie Head, Walter Higbee, Christina Taylor, Wesley Gray, Thomas Porter, Paul Kearney and Thomas Rose are the 11 Ranger Challenge cadets competing at West Point.<\/p>\n
Who’s Competing?<\/h3>\n
Austin Peay is one of 49 teams competing this year.<\/p>\n
\n- 14 International Teams:<\/strong> Australia, Thailand, Canada, Colombia, Chile, Greece, Brazil, Japan, Germany, Mexico, Denmark, United Kingdom, Korea and United Kingdom.<\/li>\n
- 16 ROTC Teams:<\/strong> University of Delaware, Florida State University, Creighton University, Central State University, Marquette State University, University of Hawaii, Austin Peay State University, Utah Valley University, California Polytechnic State University, Virginia Military Institute, John Hopkins University, Tarleton State University, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Lehigh University, University of North Georgia and Ebinboro University.<\/li>\n
- Four service academies:<\/strong> 16 U.S. Military Academy teams, and teams from the U.S. Naval Academy, U.S. Air Force Academy and U.S. Coast Guard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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To Learn More<\/h3>\n\n- For more information about Sandhurst 2019, go to https:\/\/westpoint.edu\/military\/department-of-military-instruction\/sandhurst<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- For more about Austin Peay\u2019s ROTC program, visit https:\/\/www.apsu.edu\/rotc\/<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Austin Peay State University (APSU) Clarksville, TN – The Austin Peay State University (APSU) ROTC Ranger Challenge team arrived in West Point, New York, on Sunday, ready to compete in its first-ever Sandhurst competition. \u201cThey\u2019re pretty motivated, and they think they\u2019re going to do really well, and I do too,\u201d Keith Colman, the team\u2019s coach, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,12466,33445,262,33367,33368,33370,512,825,32879,150,32880,32881,32888,33366,32886,32883,32890,33446,33448,33369,33447,32882,11894],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-73m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27117,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27116\/revisions\/27117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>Members of the APSU ROTC Ranger Challenge team. (Benny Little, APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n
Team captain Steven Price, assistant captain Daniel Cole, Brandon Hagens, Brendan Dickinson, Kylie Head, Walter Higbee, Christina Taylor, Wesley Gray, Thomas Porter, Paul Kearney and Thomas Rose are the 11 Ranger Challenge cadets competing at West Point.<\/p>\n
Who’s Competing?<\/h3>\n
Austin Peay is one of 49 teams competing this year.<\/p>\n
- \n
- 14 International Teams:<\/strong> Australia, Thailand, Canada, Colombia, Chile, Greece, Brazil, Japan, Germany, Mexico, Denmark, United Kingdom, Korea and United Kingdom.<\/li>\n
- 16 ROTC Teams:<\/strong> University of Delaware, Florida State University, Creighton University, Central State University, Marquette State University, University of Hawaii, Austin Peay State University, Utah Valley University, California Polytechnic State University, Virginia Military Institute, John Hopkins University, Tarleton State University, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Lehigh University, University of North Georgia and Ebinboro University.<\/li>\n
- Four service academies:<\/strong> 16 U.S. Military Academy teams, and teams from the U.S. Naval Academy, U.S. Air Force Academy and U.S. Coast Guard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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To Learn More<\/h3>\n
- \n
- For more information about Sandhurst 2019, go to https:\/\/westpoint.edu\/military\/department-of-military-instruction\/sandhurst<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- For more about Austin Peay\u2019s ROTC program, visit https:\/\/www.apsu.edu\/rotc\/<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Austin Peay State University (APSU) Clarksville, TN – The Austin Peay State University (APSU) ROTC Ranger Challenge team arrived in West Point, New York, on Sunday, ready to compete in its first-ever Sandhurst competition. \u201cThey\u2019re pretty motivated, and they think they\u2019re going to do really well, and I do too,\u201d Keith Colman, the team\u2019s coach, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,12466,33445,262,33367,33368,33370,512,825,32879,150,32880,32881,32888,33366,32886,32883,32890,33446,33448,33369,33447,32882,11894],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-73m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27117,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27116\/revisions\/27117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- For more about Austin Peay\u2019s ROTC program, visit https:\/\/www.apsu.edu\/rotc\/<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
- 16 ROTC Teams:<\/strong> University of Delaware, Florida State University, Creighton University, Central State University, Marquette State University, University of Hawaii, Austin Peay State University, Utah Valley University, California Polytechnic State University, Virginia Military Institute, John Hopkins University, Tarleton State University, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Lehigh University, University of North Georgia and Ebinboro University.<\/li>\n