The Licaris come home; Austin Peay welcomes 11th President, Dr. Michael Licari and his wife Kirsten
After years spending March afternoons trudging through snowbanks in Minnesota, Dr. Michael Licari is moving due south to Clarksville. He and his wife Kirsten stood inside their new kitchen at Archwood, rummaging through a box of dishes. Plates were stacked neatly on the counter behind him, waiting to be placed inside cabinets, and the bare walls still smelled of fresh paint. “This is home,” Licari said. “As we speak, we’re still unboxing stuff.”
Maggie (Warner) Kulback at APSU in 1975.
Maggie Kulback's historic run to become the first female SGA president
On April 23, 1975, a 20-year-old college student named Maggie Warner, then Kulback, walked anxiously across the wide lawns of Austin Peay State University. The growing campus was on the cusp of major changes – construction was set to begin soon on the Dunn Center basketball arena – and Maggie, a Tullahoma native who’d recently transferred from Motlow State Community College, wanted to help lead the way. As Warner and other Austin Peay students went to cast their ballot for a new Student Government Association President, she had no idea she was about to make history.
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A nursing student practices on a medical dummy in McCord.
CMCCHF commits $3 million for the new APSU Health Professions Building
The Clarksville-Montgomery County Community Health Foundation (CMCCHF) recently committed to a gift of $3 million to the Austin Peay State University Foundation. The gift will be used exclusively to establish the CMC Community Health Foundation Equipment & Building Fund with the APSU Foundation, to support the Health Professions Building and additional equipment needs.
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Austin Peay is the only member of the Ohio Valley Conference to have an indoor athletic
facility of this kind.
Jenkins family strengthens ties to University, athletics with transformative fieldhouse gift
Don and Sandy Jenkins have been a supportive part of the Austin Peay community for years, donating their time and monetary support for a variety of endeavors academically and athletically. Most recently, the family gave a transformational gift to the university, part of which went toward the repurposing of the indoor facility. While it has not been dedicated at this time, the Board of Trustees has passed a resolution allowing the facility to be named the Jenkins Family Fieldhouse.
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At just 30 years old, Scotty Walden is the youngest head coach in Division I football.
Scotty Walden named APSU's 21st head football coach
Innovative and energetic are two words Austin Peay State University Director of Athletics Gerald Harrison used to describe his hiring of Scotty Walden as the university's 21st head football coach. "Callie, Luca, and I are incredibly blessed and thankful to be a part of the Governor family," said Walden. "Becoming the head football coach for an up-and-coming program like Austin Peay is a dream come true for myself and my family.
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Dr. Mickey Wadia and study abroad students in England before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Our Man in London: APSU’s Mickey Wadia makes England his second home
For years, Dr. Mickey Wadia has served as Austin Peay’s campus representative for the Cooperative Center for Study Abroad (CCSA) – “a non-profit consortium of schools focused on providing study abroad experiences in English speaking countries” – which has allowed him to guide hundreds of students through the physical worlds of Chaucer, William Shakespeare and Jane Austen. Then, in March 2020, a global pandemic brought all international travel to a sudden halt.
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Former head coach Rick Christophel will be the first representation Austin Peay has
had in a Super Bowl since Super Bowl XLIV.
Govs alumnus and Tampa Bay assistant Rick Christophel set for Super Bowl stage
When the teams took the field for the Super Bowl earlier this year, Austin Peay State University football fans saw a familiar face patrolling the sidelines in the form of alumnus and former head coach Rick Christophel, now tight ends coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He was the fourth member of the extended Austin Peay athletics family to have a turn in football's biggest game. Governors' basketball alumnus Percy Howard, a 1975 APSU graduate, was the only Austin Peay alumnus to play in the Super Bowl.
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