{"id":28035,"date":"2019-10-28T13:29:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T18:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=28035"},"modified":"2019-10-28T13:29:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T18:29:27","slug":"apsu-ranger-challenge-team-wins-bold-warrior-qualifies-for-prestigious-west-point-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2019\/10\/28\/apsu-ranger-challenge-team-wins-bold-warrior-qualifies-for-prestigious-west-point-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU Ranger Challenge team wins Bold Warrior, qualifies for prestigious West Point competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-324279\" title=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Austin-Peay-State-University-APSU.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" width=\"250\" height=\"64\"\/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; The Austin Peay State University (APSU) Ranger Challenge team will be one of 16 ROTC teams to compete next April at West Point\u2019s Sandhurst 2020 competition, the world\u2019s premier academy-level military skills competition.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_470068\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APSU-Ranger-Challenge-team-wins-Bold-Warrior-qualifies-for-prestigious-West-Point-competition.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-470068\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-470068\" title=\"Austin Peay State University (APSU) Ranger Challenge team\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APSU-Ranger-Challenge-team-wins-Bold-Warrior-qualifies-for-prestigious-West-Point-competition-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University (APSU) Ranger Challenge team\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-470068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Austin Peay State University (APSU) Ranger Challenge team<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The team qualified by winning the grueling, two-day 7<sup>th<\/sup> Brigade ROTC Bold Warrior Challenge October 25th-27th at Fort Knox, Kentucky. APSU defeated 37 schools from Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>The team won the competition by earning 1,071 points out of a possible 1,500 points. The University of Louisville finished second and also qualifies for Sandhurst.<\/p>\n<p>The team finished runner-up at last year\u2019s Bold Warrior, earning its first-ever invitation to the Sandhurst competition where it finished eighth among the country\u2019s ROTC programs.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the Austin Peay State University ROTC program, go to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/icm-tracking.meltwater.com\/link.php?DynEngagement=true&amp;H=FcQ5do3Mtm%2F2JnP%2FxXFcY%2BL9mOkU%2Fad4G7kfqxVfSdkEEq1vNf2gy9Uc7ZyasHziSM70Twc0pIjX%2FB%2FpPWlgHR79V9tgzzFhJt9OLgl6sLVyKSgcuta%2FRhNnw0kmVFtz&amp;G=0&amp;R=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.apsu.edu%2Frotc%2F&amp;I=20191028153747.00000121b09c%40mail6-41-usnbn1&amp;X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjVkYjcwYjQ1MTYwYzMwZGIxNGRhNDVlNjs%3D&amp;S=1mTtwnG0PyjMwmM3XqrnFqGqY2PZZbKyTmCvjYRtU80\" >www.apsu.edu\/rotc\/<\/a>. To learn more about the Sandhurst Military Skills Competition, go to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/icm-tracking.meltwater.com\/link.php?DynEngagement=true&amp;H=FcQ5do3Mtm%2F2JnP%2FxXFcY%2BL9mOkU%2Fad4G7kfqxVfSdkEEq1vNf2gy9Uc7ZyasHziSM70Twc0pIjX%2FB%2FpPWlgHR79V9tgzzFhJt9OLgl6sLVyKSgcuta%2FRhNnw0kmVFtz&amp;G=0&amp;R=https%3A%2F%2Fwestpoint.edu%2Fmilitary%2Fdepartment-of-military-instruction%2Fsandhurst&amp;I=20191028153747.00000121b09c%40mail6-41-usnbn1&amp;X=MHwxMDQ2NzU4OjVkYjcwYjQ1MTYwYzMwZGIxNGRhNDVlNjs%3D&amp;S=KRf4zlEFoRDbKBkvhRBJAW3PufqblXoTj3pDZ50qEPk\" >westpoint.edu\/military\/department-of-military-instruction\/sandhurst<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; The Austin Peay State University (APSU) Ranger Challenge team will be one of 16 ROTC teams to compete next April at West Point\u2019s Sandhurst 2020 competition, the world\u2019s premier academy-level military skills competition.<\/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":[23,33322,12466,262,512,825,11820,10460,4117,15480,11995,32876,33366,1758,19861,11894],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-7ib","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28035"}],"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=28035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28036,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28035\/revisions\/28036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}