Ranger Challenge team finishes eighth among ROTC teams at Sandhurst

Austin Peay ROTC cadets Steven Price and Walt Higbee participate in one of the last challenges of Sandhurst.

(Posted April 14, 2019)

The Austin Peay ROTC Ranger Challenge team represented the University well in the school's first-ever trip to the Sandhurst global military skills competition at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.

The team finished eighth among 16 ROTC teams and 29th overall in the competition, which included 19 teams from the U.S. service academies and 14 teams from international military academies. The U.S. Military Academy Black Team won the competition, and the University of North Georgia team won the ROTC competition.

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Here are the final results in the ROTC division:

1. North Georgia.
2. Marquette.
3. Utah Valley.
4. Cal Poly.
5. Creighton.
6. Central State.
7. Virginia Military Institute.
8. Austin Peay.
9. Florida State.
10. Embry-Riddle.
11. Lehigh.
12. Johns Hopkins.
13. Tarelton State.
14. Edinboro.
15. Hawaii.
16. Delaware.

TO LEARN MORE

• For more information about Sandhurst 2019, go to https://westpoint.edu/military/department-of-military-instruction/sandhurst.
• For more about Austin Peay’s ROTC program, visit https://www.apsu.edu/rotc/.