Monthly Archives: August 2010

Photographed from left to right: Coordinator of Continuing Education and Military Programs, Ms. Donna Parks; Dean of Student Services, Dr. Craig Bogar; and Associate Dean of Continuing Education, Ms. Betsy Smith. The United States Sports Academy has been selected by G.I. Jobs magazine as a Military Friendly School for 2011. This honor places the Academy [...]

Academy Vice President Dr. T.J. Rosandich donated 25 complete youth soccer uniforms, as well as several soccer balls and soccer ball pumps, to the Federation Gabonaise de Football (FGF) during a recent visit to the Central African nation. Mr. Herve Patrick Opiangah (right), a senior official with FGF, accepted the donation on behalf of the [...]

Academy Vice President Dr. T.J. Rosandich (left) recently met with Rene Ndemezo Obiang, Gabon’s Minister of Youth, Sports, and Leisure, during a trip to the Central African nation to discuss sport development. The Academy signed an agreement with Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba, the President of Gabon, in March of 2010, to bring its sport education [...]

Tennis players took the No. 1 spots and Spaniards swept the male side in the United States Sports Academy’s July Athlete of the Month balloting. Rafael Nadal was named Male Athlete of the Month and Serena Williams was named Female Athlete of the Month. Rafael Nadal, a tennis player from Spain, was named Male Athlete [...]

Dr. Arthur Ogden (left) meets with Dr. Fred Cromartie (right) Two United States Sports Academy faculty members received significant promotions Friday, as Dr. Arthur Ogden was named Vice President of Development and Dr. Fred Cromartie was named Dean of Academic Affairs. For Dr. Ogden, it’s a new chapter in a 40-year career in education. For [...]

Academy Trustee Don Wukash (left) presents the painting “Wounded Warrior” to J.R. Martinez, an Iraq war veteran and the Academy’s 2009 Mildred “Babe” Didrikson Zacharias Courage Award recipient. The United States Sports Academy is working with the U.S. military “Wounded Warrior” program, which aims to bring in military personnel, who are ill, wounded, and/or disabled [...]

Forty-one certified limited edition prints depicting the Alabama-Auburn football rivalry will be displayed and auctioned at a special art show where the painter, Daniel Moore, will also unveil the 2009 College Football Game of the Year painting on the United States Sports Academy’s campus at 5 p.m. Thursday, 16 September. Moore, the American Sport Art [...]

The National Art Museum of Sport (NAMOS) is inviting sport artists to participate in its inaugural juried “Commitment to Excellence in Art and Sport: A Fine Art Competition” and exhibit. Up to 50 paintings, sculptures and photographs depicting sport selected by a jury, will be exhibited at the museum on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue [...]

Jack Lengyel, who is probably best known as the coach portrayed in the film “We Are Marshall” that depicts the rebuilding of the Marshall University football program after a 1970 airplane crash, will receive an honorary doctorate from the United States Sports Academy. Lengyel, a former trustee for the Academy, followed his four years as [...]

Guo Jie, President of Worldteam Sports, will receive an honorary doctorate from the United States Sports Academy. Not only is he the inventor of Nine-Star sports shoes, the first sports sponsor of the 11th Asian Games, but Guo has helped purchase the first Chinese-owned Formula One racing team, and is a major partner of the [...]