Monthly Archives: November 2009

United States Sports Academy Vice President Dr. T.J. Rosandich will present at the International Congress of Sport and Leisure Management in Sao Paulo, Brazil on 27 November 2009. His paper is entitled “Information Technology Management for Sports Administrators.” The conference was organized by the Social Service Organization for Commerce Workers (SESC), the School of Physical [...]

Stanford handed powerful USC one of its worst losses in school history and was nominated as the United States Sports Academy’s top college football game for Week 11 by our panel of experts. Stanford routed USC 55-21 in a Pacific-10 Conference game, ending the Trojans’ streak of seven straight Bowl Championship Series (BCS) appearances. The [...]

Dr. T.J. Rosandich and Annita Alldredge Annita Alldredge, the United States Sports Academy’s Director of Finance, was awarded a Certificate of Merit by Vice President Dr. T.J. Rosandich. Ms. Alldredge was honored for her work in the Finance department and working with Financial Aid.

Triatheletes Craig Alexander (left) and Chrissie Wellington The winners from the Ironman Triathlon World Championships, Craig Alexander and Chrissie Wellington, swept the United States Sports Academy’s Male and Female Athlete of the Month honors for October. Alexander, from Australia, won his second straight Ironman in Kona, Hawaii. Running in stifling heat, Alexander completed the 140.6 [...]

It is only appropriate that on the weekend before Veterans Day one of the branches of the Armed Forces is nominated as the United States Sports Academy’s College Football Game of the Week. Navy earned the honors for Week 10, with its 23-21 victory at Notre Dame. It was the second time in three years [...]

Brad Thatcher, left, of Thatcher Co. in New York, poses for a photo along with United States Sports Academy President and CEO, Dr. Thomas P. Rosandich, Brazilian journalist Mario Viana, and Peter Tichansky, the President of the Business Council for International Understanding. Dr. Thomas P. Rosandich, the President and Chief Executive Officer of the United [...]

Eagle Award Medallion Because of his successful efforts to bring the Summer Olympic Games and Paralympic Games to South America for the first time, lawyer and President of Brazil’s Olympic Committee, Carlos Arthur Nuzman, has been named the winner of the United States Sports Academy’s Eagle Award. Nuzman has long been a prominent figure in [...]

Carl Maddox Sports Management Award Medallion University of Florida director of athletics Jeremy Foley, who completed a remarkable rise from ticket office intern to the leader of one of the most successful college athletic departments in the country, has been named winner of the United States Sports Academy’s Carl Maddox Sports Management Award. Foley has [...]

Ronald Reagan Media Award Medallion ESPN college football studio analyst Lee Corso, the popular, mascot-gear wearing king of predictions on the network’s popular College GameDay show, has been named the winner of the United States Sports Academy’s Ronald Reagan Media Award. Corso joined ESPN in 1987 after 28 years of coaching football at the college [...]

Deadline to vote on naming “Mr. Basketball” is 26 November 2009. Time is running out to submit votes for the United States Sports Academy’s “Mr. Basketball” contest. Voting to name the new sculpture dedicated to basketball in the Academy’s environmentally-friendly Sport Sculpture Park closes on Thanksgiving Day, 26 November 2009. Through the Academy’s website at [...]