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Episode 15 is final part of a three-part series featuring our
2020-21 OVC Scholar-Athlete Award winners. The episode features Jacksonville State linebacker
Zack Woodard and Austin Peay tennis athlete
Fabienne Schmidt.
Woodard is a starting linebacker for the Jacksonville State football team. Last year he earned second-team All-OVC honors after recording the fourth-most tackles in the OVC (96) and adding seven tackles for loss, an interception, recovering a fumble and defending five passes. In the classroom he has a 3.87 grade point average in accounting. He has been named to the FCS ADA Academic All-Star Team, the OVC Commissioner’s Honor Roll, the JSU President’s List and Dean’s List. He is a member of the JSU Accounting Club, a member of the Beta Alpha Psi honor society and had an internship with SaveFirst Impact America. He has served as a children’s mentor, the AOII Gamecock Give Back-Pack initiative and assisted with the JSU tornado recovery cleanup.
Schmidt is a fourth-year member of the Austin Peay women’s tennis team. In her three previous years she has recorded a career 58-12 singles and 48-15 doubles mark. Last season she played in the No.1 singles position and earned OVC Player of the Week honors in a season interrupted by the pandemic. In 2018-19 she was a member of the undefeated OVC regular season and tournament champions and earned second-team All-OVC honors. That came a season after being named the OVC Freshman of the Year. Schmidt had a perfect 4.0 grade point average in marketing with a minor in management. She has been a three-time OVC Academic Medal of Honor recipient, an ITA Scholar-Athlete, an Arthur Ashe Jr. Sport Scholar and named to the OVC Commissioner’s Honor Roll and APSU Dean’s List. She is a member of the Austin Peay Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), the Athletic Academic Committee, the Athletic Mentoring Program and Govs Grow. She has been involved in numerous volunteer activities including Read Across America, Buddy Ball, Breast Cancer Awareness Run, Rise Up Academy, a volunteer at Burt Elementary School and working at tennis clinics.
The duo will discuss many topics including how they each ended up at their respective schools, what motivates them to excel all-around, how they find time for extracirricular and volunteer activites, what they want to do after graduation and what makes their school is special.
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Podcast Music
Open: "the lips of God" - urmymuse ((c) copyright 2019 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license)
Guest Intro: "a story" - Gizzard ((c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license)