Leaving on a High Note - Austin Peay State University
Leaving on a High Note - Austin Peay State University
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CHAD CAROBENE (’00) was promoted<br />
recently to sales manager at Erwin<br />
Marine Sales, Henders<strong>on</strong>ville.<br />
JARROD DUNCAN (’01) is a commercial<br />
banker with Planters Bank Hilldale<br />
office, Clarksville. He previously was<br />
assistant branch manager with Sun<br />
Trust Bank, Nashville.<br />
WILLIAM BRIAN HOWELL (’01) was<br />
promoted in Spring 2006 to senior project<br />
manager for American C<strong>on</strong>structors<br />
Inc., Nashville. He is managing projects<br />
in Murfreesboro and Nashville.<br />
JOHN RUDOLPH (’01) is a commercial<br />
loan officer with First Federal Savings<br />
Bank, Clarksville. He worked for the<br />
past seven years as a senior account<br />
executive for United Postal Service in<br />
the middle and west Tennessee regi<strong>on</strong>s.<br />
MARNA A. KRAJESKI (’02), Kingst<strong>on</strong>,<br />
R.I., had her book, “Household<br />
Baggage: The Moving Life of a<br />
Soldier’s Wife,” published by Wyatt-<br />
MacKenzie. The cover of the book features<br />
Krajeski and her husband, Lt. Col.<br />
Paul Krajeski, who is deployed to<br />
Afghanistan until June.<br />
HEATHER DENISE PIPER (’02), a sec<strong>on</strong>d-year<br />
law student at the<br />
Cumberland School of Law at Samford<br />
<strong>University</strong>, Birmingham, Ala., is a member<br />
of the Cumberland Nati<strong>on</strong>al Trial<br />
Team. She was to compete in February<br />
in the Nati<strong>on</strong>al Trial Competiti<strong>on</strong> in<br />
North Carolina.<br />
JULIE-ANNA CARLISLE (’03) is the arts<br />
educati<strong>on</strong> coordinator at the Pennyroyal<br />
Arts Council, Hopkinsville, Ky. She also is<br />
a photographer and artist.<br />
PAUL LANDON LAMM (’03) is the<br />
head baseball coach at Spring Hill <strong>High</strong><br />
School, Columbia. In 2005, he was the<br />
head baseball coach for E.A. Cox Middle<br />
School, Columbia, leading the team to a<br />
17-1 seas<strong>on</strong> and a district tournament<br />
win. He is married to NICOLE DIANE<br />
AQUINO LAMM (’04), a law student at<br />
the Nashville School of Law.<br />
Classical art or pro football? Alumna chooses both<br />
Jennifer Paulk-McGinley (’06) competes for a spot <strong>on</strong> the Cincinnati Sizzle<br />
women’s professi<strong>on</strong>al football team. She has been c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>ing with the team<br />
during off-seas<strong>on</strong> acti<strong>on</strong>. The 2007 seas<strong>on</strong> was to begin in April.<br />
By MELONY LEAZER<br />
Communicati<strong>on</strong> Specialist<br />
Growing up with a brother and<br />
father who enjoy football, Jennifer<br />
Paulk-McGinley (‘06) had no choice but<br />
to watch and learn the game.<br />
But the attenti<strong>on</strong> she gave the sport<br />
at an early age may have helped her<br />
make the Cincinnati Sizzle women’s<br />
professi<strong>on</strong>al football team.<br />
The Cincinnati Sizzle competes in<br />
the Nati<strong>on</strong>al Women’s Football<br />
Associati<strong>on</strong> (NWFA). The team,<br />
coached by former NFL player Ickey<br />
Woods, finished the 2006 seas<strong>on</strong> with<br />
a 3-5 record, coming in sec<strong>on</strong>d in the<br />
NWFA’s northwest divisi<strong>on</strong>.<br />
The 2007 women’s seas<strong>on</strong> runs<br />
April through June. Now in off-seas<strong>on</strong><br />
acti<strong>on</strong>, the team is c<strong>on</strong>ducting c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>ing<br />
drills <strong>on</strong>e morning a week.<br />
In additi<strong>on</strong> to the weekly drills,<br />
Paulk-McGinley is pursuing a master’s<br />
JENNIFER EVANS MALOTTE (’03) is a<br />
network technician with the Clarksville-<br />
M<strong>on</strong>tgomery County School System.<br />
JIM WILSON (’03) is an officer in the<br />
U.S. Army and the deputy chief of<br />
Medical Health Physics in the western<br />
regi<strong>on</strong> of the U.S.<br />
JESSICA MAURINE CANNON (’04),<br />
Covingt<strong>on</strong>, is pursuing a Master of Arts<br />
in Counseling Psychology at Argosy<br />
<strong>University</strong>, Nashville campus.<br />
degree in classical art at the <strong>University</strong><br />
of Cincinnati after earning a bachelor’s<br />
degree in Greek from APSU last May.<br />
She learned of the opportunity to<br />
play football through her landlord<br />
whose fiancé plays women’s professi<strong>on</strong>al<br />
football. “So I thought, ‘ Why<br />
not?’” she says.<br />
After a grueling first round of tryouts,<br />
Paulk-McGinley escaped injuries,<br />
but her body was not used to the workout.<br />
“I was sore after tryouts,” she<br />
says. “I’m enjoying this, though. It’s<br />
hard work, but it’s still fun.”<br />
After two rounds of tryouts, Paulk-<br />
McGinley became a member of the<br />
Cincinnati Sizzle, although player positi<strong>on</strong>s<br />
have not been decided as yet.<br />
“My husband thinks it’s w<strong>on</strong>derful<br />
that I’m doing this,” she says. “But my<br />
dad thinks it’s awesome. He tells people,<br />
‘My s<strong>on</strong>s didn’t play pro football,<br />
but my daughter does.’”<br />
RYAN HULGUIN (’04) is working <strong>on</strong> a<br />
graduate degree in computati<strong>on</strong>al engineering<br />
at the <strong>University</strong> of Tennessee-<br />
Chattanooga.<br />
PATRICK MALOTTE (’04) is president<br />
of Tennessee Technology Suppliers<br />
Inc., Clarksville.<br />
DEBRA A. MATTHEWS (’04) is career<br />
transiti<strong>on</strong>s specialist for Job Corps,<br />
Clarksville. She assists students with<br />
career goals and employment.<br />
Photo C<strong>on</strong>tributed<br />
JAMES MOTT (’04) attends a culinary<br />
school in New York.<br />
ERICA JEAN ZASTROW (’04),<br />
Mammoth Lakes, Calif., is a payroll<br />
assistant for Mammoth Mountain<br />
Ski Area.<br />
CHRIS GARBER (’05) is pursuing a<br />
master’s degree in electrical engineering<br />
from Vanderbilt <strong>University</strong>,<br />
Nashville.<br />
GEORGE HANNA (’05) is enrolled in<br />
the medical physics graduate program<br />
at Duke <strong>University</strong>, Durham, N.C.<br />
JON McMAHAN (’05) caught an<br />
aggressive exotic fish while fishing last<br />
summer at the Cumberland City Steam<br />
Plant. An August 2006 article in The<br />
The Leaf-Chr<strong>on</strong>icle noted McMahan’s<br />
plans to see if the fish was a piranha.<br />
He is a graduate student in aquatic<br />
biology at APSU.<br />
CHRIS McMAHON (’05) is pursuing a<br />
master’s degree in applied mathematics<br />
at Western Kentucky <strong>University</strong>,<br />
Bowling Green.<br />
ERIC MILLER (’05) recently formed<br />
HeroStreet Press LLC, an internati<strong>on</strong>al<br />
publishing company that focuses <strong>on</strong><br />
comic books and comics-related materials.<br />
His latest publicati<strong>on</strong> is a newspaper,<br />
The Hero Street Press, distributed<br />
in 14 states, two Canadian<br />
provinces and the United Kingdom.<br />
Miller also is working <strong>on</strong> the third issue<br />
of his humor comic, “Hero Street,” as<br />
well as two newspaper strips that will<br />
be published <strong>on</strong>line and in The Hero<br />
Street Press.<br />
JUSTIN ROPER (’05) is pursuing a<br />
Ph.D. in Medical Physics at Duke<br />
<strong>University</strong>, Durham, N.C.<br />
BILLY TEETS (’05) is pursuing a Ph.D.<br />
in Physics with an astr<strong>on</strong>omy c<strong>on</strong>centrati<strong>on</strong><br />
at Vanderbilt <strong>University</strong>,<br />
Nashville.<br />
JOHN WILLIS (’05) is pursuing a<br />
Master of Science in Management at<br />
Spring 2007<br />
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