Monthly Archives: August 2011

Academy President and CEO Dr. Thomas P. Rosandich (left) with former heavy weight champion Evander Holyfield (center) and Mobile Sports Authority Director Bud Ratliff (right) at the Champions Banquet Aug. 6, in Mobile. The weeklong 2012 U.S. Olympic boxing team trials held in Mobile, Ala., concluded with a USA Boxing delegation touring the United States [...]

The International Olympic Committee has kicked off the registration process for next year’s IOC World Conference on Women and Sport, which will take place Feb. 16-18, 2012, in Los Angeles. Under the theme “Together Stronger: The Future of Sport,” the event is being organized jointly by the IOC, the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and [...]

In just his second season as Auburn University’s head football coach, Gene Chizik guided his team to a perfect 14-0 record and won the BCS National Championship, which has earned him the United States Sports Academy’s 2011 Amos Alonzo Stagg Coaching Award. Chizik, a 23-year coaching veteran, is scheduled to accept the award at 9 [...]

Retired U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Charles “Chuck” C. Krulak earned the United States Sport Academy’s Theodore Roosevelt Meritorious Achievement Award for his longtime contributions to sport from his wrestling days at the U.S. Naval Academy to his military service as the commandant of the U.S. Marines Corps. Now the president of Birmingham-Southern College where he [...]

The United States Sports Academy will begin providing continuing education units for the Professional Tennis Registry’s (PTR) new training program that teaches tennis professionals and coaches about improving the performance level of players. The PTR Master of Tennis Performance Program was developed to give tennis coaches the knowledge, skills and assessment tools they need to [...]

World renowned Fairhope sculptor Bruce Larsen (left) reviews a sketch of a new sculpture of Auburn Heisman Trophy Winner Bo Jackson being added to the Academy’s Iron Bowl Monument. With him are Alabama Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn (center) and State Rep. Randy Davis, R-Daphne (left). The Iron Bowl Monument at the United [...]