Monthly Archives: November 2010

Northwestern’s two fourth quarter touchdowns knocked No. 13 Iowa out of the Big 10 title chase and earned the Wildcats the United States Sports Academy’s College Football Game of the Week. An interception near the goal line by Brian Peters kept the Hawkeyes from increasing their 17-7 lead early in the fourth quarter. Northwestern quarterback Dan [...]

Pictured from left to right: Dr. Thomas P. Rosandich (Head Track and Field Coach of the Quantico Marines); Wes Santee (Kansas); Everett Trader (Occidental); Bill Taylor (USC); and Cordell Brown (Utah State). The above pictured individuals composed the best mile relay team in the United States in 1956. Wes Santee, a Kansas track star, Olympian, [...]

Six doctoral students at the United States Sports Academy completed their comprehensive final examinations on the Academy’s campus on 10-12 November. Standing in the lobby are (front row, left to right) Sichan Park of South Korea; Melissa Thomas of Saraland, Ala.; Mark Streiff of Evans Mill, N.Y.; (back row) Kristene Kelly of Raleigh, N.C.; .William [...]

For her contribution to equestrian sports and the Olympic Movement, Her Royal Highness Princess Haya Al Hussein of Jordan has been named the winner of the United States Sports Academy’s 2010 Eagle Award. Princess Haya was Jordan’s first female professional athlete and the first female to represent her country internationally in sport, as a 13-year-old [...]

Ng Ser Miang Ng Ser Miang, president of the first Youth Olympics held in Singapore, will receive a Distinguished Service Award from the United States Sports Academy. As a former sailor, Miang won a silver medal in the Southeast-Asian Peninsular Games, and is currently the patron of the Singapore Sailing Federation and past vice president [...]

Harry Weber (left) receives the 2011 Sport Artist of the Year, Sculptor, Award from Trustee Jack Scharr. Harry Weber, recently named the 2011 American Sport Art Museum and Archives’ (ASAMA) Sport Artist of the Year, Sculptor, honored veterans who served their country with a special art exhibition on the United States Sports Academy’s campus Wednesday, [...]

Roy Halladay An historic baseball pitching performance, and Jodie Swallow’s first World Cup Triathlon victory, earned Roy Halladay and the British triathlete Male and Female Athlete of the Month honors for October by the United States Sports Academy. The Philadelphia pitcher Halladay threw the second no-hitter in postseason history when the Phillies defeated the Cincinnati [...]

From left: Dr. Thomas P. Rosandich, Academy President; Robert Zimlich, Academy Curator; and Don Rush. Don Rush, the President of Jireh Publishing and brother of the 2011 Sport Artist of the Year, Painter, Rick Rush, recently visited the Academy’s campus in Daphne, Ala., to deliver an original painting donated by Rush. The painting is one [...]

Dr. Peter Chen, a member of the United States Sports Academy’s National Faculty, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Ministry of Education in Taiwan. Dr. Chen is the Vice President for Oceania of the International Council for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance and also Emeritus Principal Lecturer at the Dunedin College of [...]

Distance Learning Faculty member Dr. Lawrence P. Bestmann recently traveled to Taiwan to teach a kindergarten class titled, “Movement Arts Fun.”