Watch: Day 3 - Meet Austin Peay's Ranger Challenge team cadets

The Austin Peay ROTC Ranger Challenge team practices on a Zodiac boat at West Point, New York, ahead of the Sandhurst competition, which starts April 12.

For the first time in school history, the cadets of Austin Peay’s Governors Guard ROTC Ranger Challenge team qualified for the prestigious Sandhurst competition, the world’s top academy-level military skills challenge.

Austin Peay’s cadets arrived at the West Point, New York, competition on Sunday ready to go.

“They’re pretty motivated, and they think they’re going to do really well, and I do too,” Keith Colman, the team’s coach, said. “They’re real strong. They’ve been training hard for three months now.”

From Tuesday-Friday this week, we’ll post video interviews of members of the team, including the 11 who traveled to the U.S. Military Academy to compete and the alternates who are still at Austin Peay but rooting their teammates on.

We hope you enjoy getting to know our cadets. Check back every day to meet another three or four cadets.

Paul Kearny

'Not just patriotic, but an honor to do'

Thomas Porter

'Always a dream of mine to lead troops'

Thomas Rose

'A lifetime experience going to Sandhurst'

Jasmine Barrios

'I love the camaraderie of the Army'

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/.
To see the videos we posted on the first day, go to https://www.apsu.edu/news/april-2019-austin-peay-ranger-challenge-sandhurst-meet-cadets-1.php.
To see the videos we posted on the second day, go to https://www.apsu.edu/news/april-2019-austin-peay-ranger-challenge-meet-cadets-2.php.