Monthly Archives: April 2012

The United States Sports Academy originated on April 22, 1972 but founder Dr. Thomas P. Rosandich began mulling over the concept two decades earlier. Working with world-class athletes all over Southeast Asia in the 1950s and 1960s as a U.S. Marine Corps track and field coach and as an Ambassador of Sport for the U.S. [...]

Dr. George E. Uhlig, who is one of the six founding members of the United States Sports Academy in 1972, will receive a Distinguished Service Award for all of his contributions to the university’s academic programs. As an original member of the Academy’s Board of Trustees, Dr. Uhlig continues to serve on the board. He [...]

Two of the world’s top golfers who have dominated their sport at times, Tiger Woods and Yani Tseng, earned selection as the United States Sports Academy’s March Athletes of the Month. Woods, who has won the second most majors in history with 14, finally snapped a streak of 31 tournaments without a victory in March [...]

The United States Sports Academy is adding a sixth sculpture by Bruce Larsen, the United States Sports Academy’s 2009 Sport Artist of the Year, to its Sports Sculpture Park on its Daphne, Ala., campus. The sculpture, “Mr. Baseball,” is being unveiled at 5 p.m. Thursday, April 19 to mark the 40th Anniversary Celebration of the [...]

Academy President and CEO Dr. Thomas P. Rosandich has been chosen by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to serve as a member of the International Jury for the Sport and Art Contest on June 11 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Brandon Spradley, an Academy residential doctoral student and teaching assistant, and Dr. Jordan Moon, the Academy’s Department Head of Sports [...]