Monthly Archives: October 2012

The United States Sports Academy’s 28th annual Awards of Sport celebration honors several athletes, coaches and administrators who participated in the 2012 London Olympics. Among the now household names from the London Games being recognized by the Academy are Sebastian Coe (Eagle Award), the chairman of the 2012 London Olympic Organizing Committee; Bob Costas (Ronald [...]

Several women pioneers in the sports world earned Distinguished Service Awards (DSA) and other honors from the United States Sports Academy’s 28th annual Awards of Sport to highlight the 40th anniversary of the landmark Title IX legislation that ushered in a new era of gender equity in college athletics. The Academy’s Awards of Sport event [...]

Academy President and CEO Dr. Thomas P. Rosandich has been appointed to serve on the Global Advisory Board for the International Sports Hall of Fame in Austin, Texas. The Hall of Fame annually awards at least six athletic legends in March at the Arnold Schwarzenegger Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio. Betsy Smith, Director of Academic Administration and Continuing [...]

Sergey Eylanbekov, the United States Sports Academy’s 2004 Sport Artist of the Year, recently unveiled a bronze monument on the new state-of-the-art campus of the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy that pays tribute to Azerbaijan President Heydar Aliyev. Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy located in Baku, Azerbaijan, is a school of international relations, which was established in March 2006 [...]

Some of the most celebrated sporting athletes, events and American pastimes created by a few of the United States Sports Academy’s Sports Artists of the Year are now on display at the Wiregrass Museum of Art in Dothan, Ala. You can see, for example, “Crimson Rose,” by Tuscaloosa, Ala., painter Rick Rush, the Academy’s 2011 [...]

For some Thailand students in the United States Sports Academy’s year-long sports certification program in sports management and sports coaching, they received an educational experience they will never forget traveling across America from San Francisco to Orlando. For the sixth consecutive year, the Academy led Thailand sports officials and students on a two-week tour of [...]

The men’s and women’s U.S. Open champions who both won in thrillers—Andy Murray and Serena Williams—were chosen as the United States Sports Academy’s September Athletes of the Month. Murray had to dig deep for stamina and mental strength to outlast Novak Djokovic in a nail-biting, five-set U.S. Open final to win 7-6 (10), 7-5, 2-6, [...]