PeayCast

Welcome to the PeayCast! Your NATIONALLY-RANKED AUSTIN PEAY FOOTBALL TEAM is covered at length. So is a top-notch golf program, a busy weekend at home for volleyball and soccer and the life and times of Gorel Soumare, who is simply one of the most exemplary and interesting student-athletes you'll find anywhere. Audio Intro: The Marcus King Band, "Welcome 'Round Here" Soumare Intro/Outro: Future, "...

Welcome to the PeayCast! Football is back! Not that it really left, but coming off the bye week and with another nationally-ranked foe set to visit Fortera Stadium, the guys have plenty to talk about from a gridiron perspective. Also: Casey’s birthday, baseball playoffs, more golf home events. And a long discussion with Kelsey Gross of the softball team on mental health, SAAC, mentoring and being...

Welcome to the PeayCast! We already discussed the JSU win, but we touch on it again here as the national ramifications start to crystallize. We also talk volleyball finally ending its road odyssey, the women's golf home event and bring on women's golfer Riley Cooper, a Clarksville native who earned her first top-10 earlier in the week at Clarksville Country Club. Audio Intro: Lost Immigrants, "Dix...

What is good mental health? How do you maintain it? How do you recognize when you don't have it? And most importantly, how can we make this a front-burner issue not just for student-athletes but the world at large? More Than A Game is a new offering from LetsGoPeay.com which focuses on issues relevant to the student-athlete. Colby Wilson of the athletic department moves the discussion along, while...

We took down 11th-ranked Jacksonville State in football. This simply couldn't wait. Audio Intro: DJ Khaled, "All I Do Is Win" Audio Outro: Alabama, "High Cotton"

Welcome to the PeayCast! Soccer stops, DeAngelo Wilson, home cross country, BLACKOUT games, home golf at Clarksville Country Club and the never-ending volleyball road trip. All that, and we still have plenty of time to talk with soccer's Gybson Roth about her unyielding cheerfulness, her first college goal and her terrible luck behind the wheel of a car. Audio Intro: Dr. Joe, "Tell Your Mother" Ro...

Connections. How do you build them? How do you maintain them? Are they actually an important part of getting, building and enjoying a successful career? Find out answers to questions you never knew you had about connection-building. More Than A Game is a new offering from LetsGoPeay.com which focuses on issues relevant to the student-athlete. Colby Wilson of the athletic department moves the discu...

Welcome to the PeayCast! Looking back at a banner day against Mercer, soccer’s Senior Day against Evansville and a solid golf outing in Lexington. Looking ahead to football visiting Johnson City, cross country hosting its home meet and volleyball wrapping up in-season tournament play. Talking to Jeremiah Oatsvall about football, his engagement and the 3 H’s of the Oatsvall house. All that and more...

Welcome to the PeayCast! Between previewing the upcoming football trip to Mercer, looking back at the hard-fought battle with Central Arkansas, golf openings and volleyball keeping it going with yet another Power Five win, there’s plenty to talk about. And that’s before our guest, Claire Larose, comes on for a far-ranging interview. Covered: Music, more music, the feeling of scoring a goal and Cla...

For this, the debut episode of More Than A Game, co-hosts Colby Wilson and Shaun Whittinghill discuss Andrew Luck's sudden retirement from the NFL, playing through pain, how to listen to your body and the toll it takes just to get on the field each and every week. More Than A Game is a new offering from LetsGoPeay.com which focuses on issues relevant to the student-athlete. Colby Wilson of the ath...

Welcome to the PeayCast! Big week. Big, big week. Nationally-ranked Central Arkansas is coming to Fortera Stadium and the boys need your support. And while that may be the only home event, there’s plenty more to digest from soccer, volleyball and golf, including a wide-ranging discussion with Garrett Whitfield of the golf team, who discusses the expectations of a veteran team, Fortnite addictions...

Welcome to the PeayCast! We record hours after the Govs thumped North Carolina Central in a big season-opening win at the Fort and we have reactions (good!) from Mark Hudspeth’s first win as head coach. We touch on soccer and volleyball, Tyler Rogers ascent to the Big Show with the San Francisco Giants and still more football as we peer into the future next week. Colby also tells a story of husban...

Welcome to the PeayCast! Everything starts next week. Everything. Football. Soccer. Volleyball. We released a bunch of schedules in the last few weeks in advance of the return of our student-athletes. Colby and Crigger talk about that, a pair of NFL prospects with Austin Peay ties and welcome in Shaun Whittinghill--the first repeat guest--to talk about a new podcast he and Colby are looking to get...

The PeayCast is back! Not officially, not really, not yet. But soon. Very soon. So we took the opportunity to introduce our new cohost, Casey Crigger, talk about some late-summer developments around Austin Peay and interview Kentel Williams, a preseason All-American heading into his senior season on the gridiron for the Govs. Our first on-campus event is less than a month away! Audio Intro: Conway...

Welcome to the Peaycast! With Colby flying solo, we bring you an update on everything that's happened around Austin Peay since the end of the academic calendar, including baseball, softball and track at the OVC Championships and myriad coaching hires to watch for in the upcoming year. Plus, awards on awards on awards to wrap up a busy (and successful) spring semester at Austin Peay. No guest, no c...

Welcome to the Peaycast! An exhausted Bobby Head showed up on little sleep for this week’s episode to talk a little about his vision (poor), hitting his first career homer at Clemson (awesome) and his sports fandom (befuddling). Dylan and Colby wax poetic on tennis’ watch ending for the 2019 season, Parker Phillips mashing homers and look ahead to track and softball championship weekends. Audio In...

Welcome to the Peaycast! We lament our failures in GoT deaths, discuss the NFL Draft and the ESPEAYS and spend a lot of time (but somehow, probably not enough) on the 22-0 OVC Champion women’s tennis program. Natalie Schilling is this week’s guest—she’s a really good guest, too. Stay past the end music for a Very Special Natalie Story. Audio Intro: Oasis, “Wonderwall” Schilling Intro/Outro: Blac Y...

Welcome to the Peaycast! At last, your promised round-up of athletic program nicknames. Also, Game of Thrones (SPOILERS, perhaps), baseball, golf… the hits. Haley Turner joins us to talk her family’s exodus from Arizona to Tennessee, beach vs. indoor and your weekly recitation of everyone’s favorite word (rhymes with "joist"). Audio Intro: Black Pistol Fire, "Fleet Foot" Turner Intro: Nickelback,...

Welcome to the Peaycast! With championships in the air, the guys recap the women’s golf tournament while looking ahead to both the men’s golf and beach volleyball championship seasons. Reagan Greene, whose career as a Gov came to a close Wednesday with a top-10 finish at the OVC Championships, is our guest to talk dad jokes, being terrified of telemarketers and what comes next when a career comes...

Welcome to the Peaycast! Spring football, an unbeaten women’s tennis program and big wins on the diamond for baseball and softball highlight this week, but the big fun is had in our interview with Kyle Anderton. Austin Peay’s nimble offensive lineman talks eating challenges, Tinder and snakes (he does not like snakes). Audio Intro: Motley Crue, "Kickstart My Heart" Anderton Intro/Outro: Luke Combs...

Welcome to the Peaycast! Lots of Jacques Pucheu this week—the Gulfport, Mississippi native is not only our guest but subject of much discussion after leading the Govs to a series win against Belmont and earning OVC Pitcher of the Week honors. As for our discussion, we talk about overcoming personal tragedy, the Cape Cod League, family and competing and he offers a little unexpected insight into th...

Welcome to the Peaycast! After lamenting busted brackets, welcoming MLB season and congratulating Friend of the Pod Ryne Harper on making the bigs with the Twins, Colby and Dylan recap another excellent weekend on the diamond and for the tennis program. Terry Taylor The GOAT is our guest; we talk about his grandparents, hard work and provides a bunch of examples as to why he is a terrible roommate...

Welcome to the Peaycast! March Madness has officially begun! The guys banter about the tournament, their shared history of bracket-picking failure (congrats in advance, Iowa State) and wax rhapsodic on a nice weekend of pitching both on the mound and in the circle. That dovetails nicely with this week’s guest, Bailey Shorter of the softball team, to talk about the program’s meteoric rise, her favo...

Welcome to the Peaycast! Dylan’s back and the boys have a lot to get to. On deck: OVC basketball tournament, a slew of spring sports and our guest, Nia Gibbs-Francis. She’s a member of the track team, a linchpin of SAAC and a 4.0 student, so she’s both too smart to talk to us and too interesting for us not to talk to, if that makes sense. Anyway: she talks APSU, Fort Campbell, social work and way...

Welcome to the Peaycast! Colby, flying solo this week after Dylan is taken out by the flu, covers the Vanderbilt win, basketball, more basketball and somehow finds time to learn about mutton busting. That’s courtesy of this week’s guest, Austin Peay hurler Brandon Vial. He has a lot to say, and the duo cover a lot of ground in this interview, including their shared Oakland (Las Vegas? Reno???) Rai...