Monthly Archives: March 2012

Stephen Okai is a two-time NAIA All-America soccer player but the University of Mobile midfielder always wants to improve his game. That meant spending four hours on a recent Friday afternoon at the United States Sports Academy’s Human Performance Lab where Okai and about 20 of his Rams teammates received comprehensive testing to learn detailed [...]

The sensational play of new phenoms Jeremy Lin, a 23-year-old New York Knicks point guard, and Jessica Korda, an 18-year-old who won her first women’s golf tournament, earned them selection as the United States Sports Academy’s February Athletes of the Month. Lin, who is of Asian descent, became an unlikely National Basketball Association star. The [...]

About 45 members of the Road Scholar program at the University of South Alabama visited the American Sport Art Museum and Archives (ASAMA) on Thursday, March 8. The group of seniors from the Beckwith Episcopal Camp & Conference Center in Fairhope, Ala., toured ASAMA, the largest collection of sport art in the world, as part of [...]

The United States Sports Academy hosted a Henan College delegation Friday, March 2 to discuss the creation of sports programs at the school, which is one of the oldest in China. Pictured from left to right are Audrey Liu, the Academy’s liaison in China, Yang Jun, president of the college’s Physical Education and Sport department, [...]

King Pelé A bronze bust of soccer legend Pelé sculpted by renowned St. Louis artist Harry Weber now greets all entrants to the Academy’s American Sport Art Museum & Archives (ASAMA). The smiling image of Pelé is a duplicate of the one Weber, the Academy’s 2011 Sport Artist of the Year, created for Gabon and [...]

Malaysia has many miles of beaches along the South China Sea. The United States Sports Academy is seeking physical educators and sports instructors who are interested in teaching abroad in a new pilot program to retrain thousands of Malaysia’s physical education teachers. The Malaysia Ministry of Education (MOE) recently approved the program that begins in [...]