Monthly Archives: December 2010

David Villa Five soccer goals and 200 skating points earned David Villa of Spain and Kim Yu-Na of South Korea the honor of being named the United States Sports Academy’s 2010 Male and Female Athletes of the Year. The two champions were selected through a worldwide ballot that saw the public cast hundreds of thousands [...]

Cameron Newton Two of Auburn University’s athletic teams dramatically improved their performances by acquiring 21-year-old junior college transfers in 2010. And those two transfers were named Male and Female Alabama Athlete of the Year by the United States Sports Academy. Cameron Newton, the Academy’s Alabama Male Athlete of the Year, is the quarterback who won [...]

Few artists can capture the image of the athlete like Rick Rush, Harry Weber and John Rezner. They each have different ways of capturing that image, but all three were named 2011 Sport Artist of the Year by the American Sport Art Museum and Archives (ASAMA). Rick Rush Rush does it through painting, Weber with [...]

The newest dynasties in international soccer and women’s college basketball earned the United States Sports Academy’s Men’s and Women’s Team of the Year awards for 2010. The Spanish national team, which won its first FIFA World Cup in 2010, was named Men’s Team of the Year. The University of Connecticut women’s basketball team, which is [...]

During a trip organized by Dr. Fred Sorrells, the President of the International Institute of Sport (IIOS), the Haitian Men’s Amputee National team visited the United States Sports Academy on Tuesday, 14 December. Sorrells helped put Haiti’s amputee soccer team together after an earthquake devastated the country earlier this year. He was seeking a therapeutic [...]

John Rezner, a ceramic potter known for his “face jugs,” will receive a Distinguished Service Award from the United States Sports Academy. The Fairhope, Ala.-based artist makes pottery from clay he digs from his own land but is seen all over the world. Baldwin County clay is highly prized for its aesthetic qualities. A member [...]

Photographed from left: Jean Durry, Founder of the French National Sport Museum, France; Professor Konstantino Georgiadis, Honorary Dean of the International Olympic Academy, Greece; Dr. Thomas P. Rosandich, President of the United States Sports Academy, United States; and Dr. Franco Ascani, President of the International Sport Cinema and Television Federation (FICTS), Italy. United States Sports [...]

The United States Sports Academy’s faculty and staff gathered with Marines from Spanish Fort and Toys for Tots regional coordinator Shinora Redmond on Friday, 10 December, as they retrieved the toy donations collected at the Academy. Children from Spanish Fort Elementary School smile while gathered around their donations to the Academy’s Toys for Tots campaign. [...]

Arizona State junior defensive end James Brooks blocked a potential game-winning extra point, then blocked a would-be game-tying extra point to give the Sun Devils bowl eligibility and a 30-29 victory over Arizona in United States Sports Academy’s College Football Game of the Week. Visiting Arizona State rallied from an eight-point deficit in the fourth [...]

Photo credit: Kirby Lee Decathletes are always considered all-around athletes, but five-time NCAA Champion Ashton Eaton has been named winner of the Jim Thorpe All-Around Award by the United States Sports Academy because of his accomplishments in the decathlon and heptathlon. The decathlon is the track and field competition that combines 10 events, and the [...]