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Kevin Plank noticed the cotton T-shirts that he and his teammates on the University of Maryland football team wore under their pads would become drenched with sweat. This would make them heavy, uncomfortable and hinder their performance. Plank, who walked on at Maryland and later became a team captain, set out on a quest to [...]

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 Randall J. Ferguson (Astoria, N.Y.) B.S.S. Sports Management Mckenzie C. Forrest (Wadley, Ga.) B.S.S. Sports Coaching Jeffrey S. [...]

Dreamed of having your name appear alongside other sports superstars? Well, now it does. Every year, the United States Sports Academy places new bricks with the names of its most recent graduates on the university’s Walk of Fame. Students who graduated in 2012 can now find their names alongside the Academy’s Award of Sport recipients, Board [...]

Dr. David Stotlar, the one-time Assistant to the Vice President for Academic Affairs at the Academy and Chair of Sports Management, earned the Sports Management Association’s lifetime scholar award at its ninth annual conference April 9 at Troy University. Stotlar, who visited the Academy following the award presentation, is the University of Northern Colorado Director [...]

Like the new movie, “42” about Jackie Robinson breaking baseball’s color barrier in 1947, the United States Sports Academy over the years has also paid tribute to the Hall of Famer who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Warner Brothers’ movie, which was No. 1release in the nation in its opening weekend earning $27.4 million, [...]

During the inaugural Gulf Coast Interstate (GCI) Relay 2013 — billed as the longest relay in the South —the United States Sports Academy’s campus in Daphne, Ala., served as one of five major transition areas for the 178 participants on Friday, April 5. After the first two-thirds of the 263-mile course from New Orleans to [...]

During his latest travels to Africa, the Middle East and Asia, United States Sports Academy Vice President and COO Dr. T.J. Rosandich met with Qi Lu, the vice secretary general of the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee (NYOGOC). Qi Lu presented Dr. Rosandich with a set of pins from the Youth Olympic Games. Allen [...]

The American Sport Art Museum and Archives (ASAMA) welcomed about 40 honor art students from the Pearl, Miss., high school for a recent tour. None of the students had toured the museum before. It arguably holds the largest collection of sport art in the world with more than 1,700 pieces in all media. The students, [...]

The opportunity to use ebooks in United States Sports Academy courses continues to grow, doubling in the past year alone. Many students say they are fortunate to take an Academy course that is now using an ebook. That’s because ebooks offer many advantages to learning, such as enhanced content like pictures, graphics, video and Internet [...]

USA Team Handball’s Beach Handball Committee has announced the conducting of a clinic in conjunction with the USATH Club National Championships in Reno, Nev. Dede Piankova, USATH Beach Handball Committee Chairwoman, is currently seeking coaches, referees and players who are interested in participating in the International Beach Handball (IBH) Master course scheduled from May 19-22. [...]