{"id":28458,"date":"2020-02-14T05:30:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T11:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=28458"},"modified":"2020-02-13T22:33:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T04:33:08","slug":"apsu-rotc-cadets-to-compete-at-xavier-in-run-up-to-sandhurst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2020\/02\/14\/apsu-rotc-cadets-to-compete-at-xavier-in-run-up-to-sandhurst\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU ROTC cadets to compete at Xavier in run-up to Sandhurst"},"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; Last October, the Austin Peay State University (APSU) ROTC Ranger Challenge team dominated at the Bold Warrior Challenge at Fort Knox, Kentucky.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_481434\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Austin-Peay-State-University-ROTC-cadets-to-compete-at-Xavier-in-run-up-to-Sandhurst-1.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-481434\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-481434\" title=\"Austin Peay State University ROTC cadet Jasmine Barrios, right, is competing at Xavier this weekend. (APSU)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Austin-Peay-State-University-ROTC-cadets-to-compete-at-Xavier-in-run-up-to-Sandhurst-1-480x270.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University ROTC cadet Jasmine Barrios, right, is competing at Xavier this weekend. (APSU)\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-481434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Austin Peay State University ROTC cadet Jasmine Barrios, right, is competing at Xavier this weekend. (APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>That victory qualified the team for the second straight year for April\u2019s globally renowned Sandhurst military skills competition at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.<\/p>\n<p>At last year\u2019s competition, the cadets finished 29<sup>th<\/sup> against the best teams from the U.S. service academies and from academies across the world.<\/p>\n<p>To improve on that finish, the team is sending eight ROTC cadets to February 15th\u2019s Xavier University Ranger Challenge. Those eight will vie for the final four spots on the Sandhurst team.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re using the Xavier competition as an assessment to figure out who we need to bulk up our team for Sandhurst,\u201d ROTC Cadet Ryan Nanzer. \u201cI honestly think our team is pretty stacked right now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been training our butts off, trying to get in shape. I\u2019m excited to see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Meet the cadets competing at Xavier&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<p>Nanzer has earned his spot on the Sandhurst team, along with six other cadets, most of them veterans from last year\u2019s competition. The eight cadets heading to Xavier have not.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll compete in teams of two at Xavier.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The cadets are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shawn King and Ian Fearn.<\/li>\n<li>Madison Ellis and Joshua Forrest.<\/li>\n<li>Jasmine Barrios and Dylan Dominique.<\/li>\n<li>Cherady Fine and Kaitlyn Hughes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They know they\u2019re representing Austin Peay State University at a competition of universities from across Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Tennessee. But they also know they\u2019re competing against each other to make the Sandhurst team.<\/p>\n<p>[320left]\u201cFrom the beginning of the semester, I feel like I\u2019ve been working pretty hard,\u201d said King, who\u2019s studying computer science at Austin Peay. \u201cI get a shot at competing at the next level, at Sandhurst. Aside from my studies, that\u2019s top priority right now.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fine, who\u2019s studying chemistry, agreed: \u201cIt will be interesting going into this competition. I think this will be a new experience for us because we\u2019ll be competing against everyone else and against ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cadets will endure 13 hours of nonstop Army skills tests, it will be \u201cGo, go, go,\u201d Fine said. \u201cBut this semester, we\u2019ve been preparing for this. It\u2019s about teamwork, everything as a team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ellis, who\u2019s studying criminal justice, added: \u201cWe\u2019ve been up every morning at 5:00am. We\u2019ve run, we\u2019ve rucked as a team because it\u2019s a team sport, you\u2019re only as fast as your slowest person.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_481435\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Austin-Peay-State-University-ROTC-cadets-to-compete-at-Xavier-in-run-up-to-Sandhurst-2.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-481435\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-481435\" title=\"Last year\u2019s Sandhurst competition team. (APSU)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Austin-Peay-State-University-ROTC-cadets-to-compete-at-Xavier-in-run-up-to-Sandhurst-2-480x270.jpg\" alt=\"Last year\u2019s Sandhurst competition team. (APSU)\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-481435\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Last year\u2019s Sandhurst competition team. (APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The cadets want to win at Xavier for Austin Peay State University.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to compete to win, but we\u2019re also competing against ourselves to see who makes Sandhurst,\u201d King said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Added Barrios, a communication major: \u201cWe\u2019re going to remember that we\u2019re all one team, but&nbsp;at the same time, in the back of our minds, we\u2019ll know our partner is our competition. That\u2019s going to be difficult for me.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the Austin Peay State University ROTC program, go to <u><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apsu.edu\/rotc\/\" >www.apsu.edu\/rotc\/<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; Last October, the Austin Peay State University (APSU) ROTC Ranger Challenge team dominated at the Bold Warrior Challenge at Fort Knox, Kentucky.&nbsp;<\/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":[23,12466,33445,262,34516,34117,512,825,34517,11820,34518,10460,32884,34519,34520,4117,34521,15480,11995,33366,34522,1758,12621,11894,34523],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-7p0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28458"}],"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=28458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28459,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28458\/revisions\/28459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}