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Austin Peay State University 2013 Alumni AwardsThe tie that binds… Austin Peay Athletics
One look at the awards to be presented at the Alumni Awards Brunch at this year’s Austin Peay State University Homecoming festivities and one common thread connects six of the seven honorees… APSU athletics. At the 10:30am, Saturday, October 26th brunch, Austin Peay will recognize the recipients of its 2013 Distinguished Alumni Awards, including Outstanding Service Award recipients Robert Smith (’81) and Bill Joe Jeans (’68); Outstanding Young Alumnus Award recipients A.J. Ellis (’04) and Justin Dickens (’04); and Outstanding Alumni recipients Jim Charlet (’63), Susan Wright Cole (’86) and Lt. Gen. Ronald Bailey (’77).Tickets to the event are $25.00 per person, and advance reservations are required by Wednesday, October 24th. For more information, contact the Alumni Relations Office at 931.221.7979 or 1.800.264.2586.
Susan Cole currently serves as reading clerk in the U.S. House of Representatives after serving in multiple public service capacities in Washington, D.C. But back in the mid-1980s, she not only was a member of the Lady Govs basketball team but as well was on the ground floor of Lady Govs softball’s initiation as a program. A.J. Ellis, who toiled in the minor leagues for multiple years, currently is the second-year starting catcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, who recently wrapped up an NL West Division title and are preparing for the postseason playoffs. As a Governor, Ellis was a four-time first-team All-Ohio Valley Conference selection as a utility player, first baseman and catcher who left the program as its all-time hits leader. For the past 16 years, Billy Joe Jeans has served as executive director of his own consulting company, providing consulting and lobbying services to various clients in the Tennessee General Assembly. That followed a 30-year at the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) before retiring in 1997. Before that Jeans was a four-year letterman and starting end for the Austin Peay football team from 1964-67. Robert Smith (’81) has been taking the area’s most memorable images for 30 years at The Leaf Chronicle and has won countless awards for his outstanding images along the way. Many of those awards were as a result of his ability to take sports photographs, many of those of Austin Peay athletes. In fact, Smith has shot sports images of three honorees—Bailey, Cole and Ellis—when they were Governors. These six are separated by age, by distance in which they live from their alma mater and the degrees each respectively received from the University. However, Austin Peay athletics is the tie that binds them as the 2013 Alumni Awards recipients. SectionsSportsTopicsA.J. Ellis, All Ohio Valley Conference, Alumni Awards, Alumni Awards Brunch, APSU, APSU Alumni Relations Office, APSU Athletics, APSU Baseball, APSU Basketball, APSU Football, APSU Homecoming, APSU Men's Football, APSU Softball, APSU Sports, APSU Sports Information, APSU Women's Basketball, APSU Women's Softball, Austin Peay State University, Bill Joe Jeans, Clarksville, Clarksville TN, Governors, Govs, Jim Charlet, Justin Dickens, Lady Govs, Los Angeles Dodgers, Marine Corps, Michigan, Peyton Manning, Robert Smith, Ronald Bailey, Susan Wright Cole, TDOT, Tennessee Department of Transportation, Tennessee General Assembly, The Leaf Chronicle, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington D.C. |
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