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United States Sports Academy Board of Trustee member Dr. Nicholas Niccolai was recently selected as a top 50 scholar/researcher at the University of South Alabama’s 50th anniversary celebration in Mobile, Ala. Niccolai was selected by USA’s Research Council to represent the many significant scientific contributions made by the university’s faculty and graduate students over the [...]

The United States Sports Academy’s 2013 Ronald Reagan Media Award winner is Dick Enberg, one of America’s most versatile sportscasters who during his long career has called nearly every major sporting event from Wimbledons to Super Bowls. Enberg, who provides play-by-play for the San Diego Padres, began broadcasting in 1957 and today remains the only [...]

With rolling enrollment, the Academy’s students start their courses as soon as they are accepted without having to wait for the next semester to begin. The Academy is proud to announce its latest monthly graduates. Bachelor’s Students Norman E. Black (Milton, Fla.) – B.S.S. Sports Management Master’s Students Julie E. Barack (St. Clairsville, Ohio) – [...]

Academy Vice President and COO Dr. T.J. Rosandich will be a featured speaker at the 2014 World Leisure Congress being held in Mobile, Ala., September 6-12. Dr. Nick Niccolai, an Academy Board of Trustees member, at the University of South Alabama’s 50th anniversary celebration was selected and honored as a top 50 Scholar/Researcher. Dr. Stephen [...]

Professional golfers Adam Scott, who became the first Australian to win The Masters, and South Korean Inbee Park, who became the No. 1 ranked women’s player after her Kraft Nabisco Championship title, were chosen as the United States Sports Academy’s April Athletes of the Month in worldwide online voting. Scott won The Masters with the [...]

The United States Sports Academy is adding a seventh sculpture by Bruce Larsen, the United States Sports Academy’s 2009 Sport Artist of the Year, to its Sports Sculpture Park on its Daphne, Ala., campus. Plans call for Larsen to create a cyclist who is racing in a triathlon, which also includes swimming and running legs. [...]

Beginning with the Summer 2013 semester scheduled to begin June 1, Academy students will be able to use ProctorU for taking course exams. The Academy’s regional accrediting agency, the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), has mandated that students who take online tests must undergo appropriate identification and supervision.  [...]

One of the founding concepts of the United States Sports Academy in 1972 was that it would be a “university without walls.” Today, those walls and other barriers to delivering a high quality, dynamic learning environment continue to disappear. The latest improvement: Academy students will be able to take online courses in Canvas beginning Sept. [...]

A group of about two dozen swimming coaches from Shanghai, China are in the United States for sports training from May 5-13. Hosted by the United States Sports Academy, the Shanghai Swimming Coaches Sports Study Tour is receiving both classroom instruction and hands-on learning. Besides seminars led by Academy faculty, the Shanghai coaches, for example, [...]

The United States Sports Academy presented to Dr. Gaylon McCollough, who was a close friend of the late University of Alabama Director of Athletics Mal Moore and a teammate on Paul “Bear” Bryant’s football team, the Carl Maddox Sports Management Award on behalf of Moore, Moore’s family and the university. The posthumous award from the [...]