Monthly Archives: September 2009

The United States Sports Academy is hosting a worldwide ballot to name the latest addition to its Sport Sculpture Park. Bruce Larsen’s newest sculpture, “The Basketball Player,” will be dedicated in a ceremony on the Academy campus in Daphne, Ala., at 5 p.m. Tuesday, 22 September 2009. The painting “High Aspirations,” from late American Sport [...]

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and American swimmer Jessica Hardy were named Male and Female Athletes of the Month for August by the United States Sports Academy. Bolt enhanced his reputation as the world’s fastest man at the Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships in Berlin, as he lowered his world-record times in the 100- [...]

University of Texas at Tyler Baseball Coach and Athletic Director James N. Vilade was named the United States Sports Academy’s 2010 Alumnus of the Year. Vilade started the UT Tyler program from scratch in 2002 and molded it into one of the best National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III programs in the country. Vilade [...]

Officials from the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) were on the campus of the United States Sports Academy 8-9 September 2009 to sign an agreement to develop the Caribbean School of Sports Science (CSSS). UTech is the primary university for elite Jamaican athletes. Twelve UTech athletes participated in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, winning [...]

The United States Sports Academy and the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) have signed an agreement to provide continuing education credits (CEUs) to coaches who take the NWCA courses and attend clinics. The NWCA, established in 1928, was designed to serve and provide leadership for the advancement of all levels of the sport, with emphasis [...]

The International Olympic Committee will announce the site of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games on 2 October 2009 in Copenhagen. Chicago, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo and Madrid are the finalists to host the Olympiad. Host cities for the Summer Games also host the Paralympics during the same year.

The United States Sports Academy has been recognized by G.I. Jobs as a Military Friendly School. This honor places the Academy in the top 15 percent of all schools nationwide for its commitment to educating our nation’s military veterans. The Academy’s Wounded Warriors program offers full-tuition scholarships to those who receive a disabling injury in [...]

The United States Sports Academy has an impressive list of experts lined up to help determine its 2009 College Football Game of the Year. The Academy’s 2005 Sport Artist of the Year, Daniel Moore, developed the Game of the Year concept. Moore, a well known artist in Alabama for his paintings on legendary coach Bear [...]