Monthly Archives: March 2011

The United States Sports Academy is donating Vietnam War sketches and a bronze sculpture by award-winning artist Harry Weber to the USS Alabama Battleship Park during a presentation scheduled at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, May 5 at the USS Alabama Memorial Park Aircraft Pavilion in Mobile. Weber, the American Sport Art Museum and Archives (ASAMA) 2011 [...]

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge reappointed the United States Sports Academy’s President and CEO Dr. Thomas P. Rosandich to another term on the IOC’s Commission for Culture and Olympic Education. Dr. Rosandich, who has served on the commission since its inception in 2000, has been involved in the Olympic movement for more than [...]

Joining eleven other Detachments in the great state of Alabama, the United States Marine Corps League has opened a new Detachment in Daphne on the campus of the United States Sports Academy. In this photo, Dr. Thomas P. Rosandich, founding President of the Academy and a former Marine Corps Officer, presents a $1,000.00 check to [...]

The United States Sports Academy mourns the passing of legendary track and field coach and Academy Trustee Jimmy Carnes, who died Saturday, 5 March 2011, after a long and courageous battle with prostate cancer. He was 76. Carnes, who built the stellar track program at University of Florida and the Florida Track Club, was named [...]

Aaron Rodgers A world champion quarterback and a world record-setting distance runner have been voted the United States Sports Academy’s Athlete of the Month honors for February. Aaron Rodgers, the Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl XLV, was named Male Athlete of the Month while Mary Keitany of Kenya, who set the world record in [...]

Longtime national sports medicine specialist for Singapore, Dr. Teh Kong Chuan, a graduate of the United States Sports Academy, recently served as the head of doping control for the first Youth Olympics in Singapore. Chuan, who earned a master’s degree in sports medicine from the Academy in 1979, is the senior sports medicine consultant for Khoo [...]

First-year Creighton University Coach Greg McDermott, a 1994 graduate of the United States Sports Academy, and his son, Greg, left, helped lead the Blue Jays to victory over Northern Iowa. Before he was named head men’s basketball coach at Creighton University, Coach Greg McDermott, a 1994 graduate of the United States Sports Academy, had come [...]

Award-winning newspaper editor and nationally-ranked master’s decathlete Grant Overstake brings 35 years of media experience to the United States Sports Academy as he assumes the role of Director of Communications, effective 1 March. Overstake previously served as general manager and executive editor for Community Publishers, Inc., publishing two community newspapers near Springfield, Mo. He also [...]

The spectacle of baseball has inspired great artists of every genre, and a rich sampling of those artworks now are on display at the American Sport Art Museum and Archives, located on the campus of the United States Sports Academy. The exhibit features the works of three prominent artists. The paintings on the wall are [...]

Dr. Jordan Moon, the Academy’s Department Head of Sports Fitness and Health, presented at the Arnold Sports Festival and Strength Training Summit held in Columbus, Ohio, from 3-5 March 2011. Dr. Moon’s presentation was titled, “Body Composition Techniques and Methods.” The three-day event covered multiple aspects of health, fitness, and sport performance. The Summit presents [...]