Monthly Archives: May 2012

The first Bahraini students graduated from the Academy’s International Sport Diploma in Sports Management program Thursday, May 24. Dr. T.J. Rosandich, the Academy’s vice President and chief academic officer, gave a commencement speech to the class of 29 students who completed the diploma program, which is the first of its kind in the Middle East. [...]

His Holiness Abbot Shi Yongxin reached an agreement with the United States Sports Academy to begin promoting the university’s online Shaolin course to 400 million Chan Buddhist followers and others across the globe. The Abbot and the Shaolin Temple monks plan to arrange an official launch date soon to publicize the course through the Shaolin [...]

An Alumni Survey conducted in April discovered that more than 70 percent of the United States Sports Academy’s alumni work in the sports industry, which is roughly double the percentage of other social science graduates who work in the profession they studied. The finding was one of several positive results from the survey that was [...]

Ming-Ching Shen (right), who recently earned her Ed.D. in Sports Management at the United States Sports Academy, went through a brief graduation routine on the Daphne campus on Monday, April 30. Academy President and CEO Dr. Thomas P. Rosandich (left) is hooding Shen, who is from Taiwan. All Academy graduates are eligible to stage photograph [...]

With rolling enrollment, the Academy’s students start their courses as soon as they are accepted without having to wait for the next semester to begin. The Academy is proud to announce its latest monthly graduates. Bachelor’s Students Jason E. Franklin (Olney, Md.) – B.S.S. Sports Studies Andrew David Robinson (Duluth, Minn.) – B.S.S. Sports Coaching [...]

Bubba Watson, who won his first major golf tournament at the Masters, and Carolina Kostner, who won her first World Figure Skating Championships title, were chosen as the United States Sports Academy’s April Athletes of the Month. Watson, an American golfer from Baghdad, Fla., earned the traditional green jacket at Augusta National with an exciting [...]

Academy Vice President, Chief Academic Officer and COO Dr. T.J. Rosandich is traveling in May to Malaysia, China, Bahrain and Abu Dhabi to meet with several government, sport education and Olympic officials to discuss the school’s programs. Dr. Lee McElroy Jr., an Academy Board of Trustees member and the University of Albany’s vice president and [...]

Charles Billich, the United States Sports Academy’s 2000 Sport Artist of the Year, recently released a painting of the London cityscape in honor of the 2012 London Olympics. The painting, “Londolympia,” by the Australian surrealist is one of several cityscapes that Billich has done to honor cities hosting the Olympics. For example, Billich has done [...]

Two current United States Sports Academy Board of Trustees members earned prestigious national awards. Dr. Lee McElroy Jr., who has served on the Academy’s Board of Trustees since 2011, and Dr. Gary Cunningham, a Trustee since 2007, are being honored for their many contributions to the world of sports. McElroy will be inducted into the [...]

  The International Sports Academy (ISA) in Singapore and Outram Secondary School signed a three-year agreement allowing selected students to enroll in a year-long sports coaching methodology certificate program awarded by the United States Sports Academy. Under the agreement, 28 Outram students will initially be registered by the ISA to receive sports education in subjects [...]