Congratulations to our recent graduates, who are from across the country and around the world.
Doctoral Graduates Dr. Lorenda Lynn Prier (Juno Beach, Fla.) – Ed.D. Sports Management, Sports Marketing emphasis, With Honors Master’s Graduates Paul K. Honnold (Okinawa, Japan) – M.S.S. Sports Medicine, M.S.S. Sports Health and Fitness, With Honors Jacqueline A. Loper (Mobile, Ala.) – M.S.S. Sports Studies, Personal Training emphasis, With Honors David J. Valescente (Groton, N.Y.) – M.S.S. Sports Studies, With Honors Ammon L. Sullivan III (Lexington, S.C.) – M.S.S. Sports Management Bachelor’s Graduate Stephen L. Langdon (Cincinnati, Ohio) – B.S.S. Sports Studies
Star in UNC Women’s Soccer Dynasty Pursuing Academy Doctoral Degree
Betsy Conaty was one of the stars behind the start of University of North Carolina’s historic and remarkable run of women’s soccer dominance. Her winning goal in the inaugural NCAA women’s soccer championship match in 1982 gave the Tar Heels their first national championship, the first of 22 the program has won to date. Betsy Conaty with her son, Brian. A 1985 North Carolina graduate, Conaty is now pursuing a Doctor of Education degree in Sports Management with an emphasis in sports health and fitness from the United States Sports Academy. A professor of health, safety and wellness at the State University of New York (SUNY) Sullivan, Conaty earned her master’s degree from Emporia State University in 2003. “My education from the United States Sports Academy has definitely [...]
Academy Alumnus Torre Becton Named Coach of Cal Football Strength and Conditioning Program
United States Sports Academy alumnus Torre Becton is using his Academy education to climb to high levels in the college football coaching world. Becton – who earned his Master of Sports Science degree in sports studies in 2014 – was recently hired as the head strength and conditioning coach for the University of California Berkeley football team. A native of Kinston, N.C., Becton played football and earned a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education/fitness and wellness management from North Carolina A&T State in 2000. He is certified through the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association and is also Strength & Conditioning Coach and Functional Movement Systems Level 1 certified. “Attaining my master’s degree from the United States Sports Academy was essentially the ‘cherry on top’ for my career,” Becton [...]
Coaching Changes in Major College Athletics
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Alabama School of Mathematics and Science Students Visit the Academy
Students from the Alabama School of Mathematics and Science (ASMS) in Mobile, Ala., visited the United States Sports Academy campus in Daphne, Ala., to learn about the Academy’s sport degree programs and to tour the American Sport Art Museum & Archives (ASAMA) on 23 February 2017. From left are ASMS physical education teacher Angel Jackson and students Brian Crear, Madeleine Dotson, Devin Wood, and Mitchell Dorsey. Founded in 1984, ASAMA is dedicated to the preservation of sports art, history, and literature. The ASAMA collection is composed of approximately 1,700 works of sport art across a variety of media, including paintings, sculptures, assemblages, prints and photographs. The museum is open free to the public from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays. For more information, go to www.asama.org.