Latest News & Events

Miami Heat forward LeBron James, who led his team on a 27-game win streak, and South Korean figure skater Kim Yu-na, who won the world championships, were chosen as the United States Sports Academy’s March Athletes of the Month in worldwide online voting. James, an American basketball player, finished with 32 points, 7 rebounds, 3 [...]

Mal Moore had served all but eight of the last 56 years of his career at the University of Alabama, including working as an offensive coordinator for the legendary Paul “Bear” Bryant’s national championship teams in 1978 and 1979 and as an athletic director for the past 14 years. Moore stepped down earlier this year [...]

It is with great sadness that the United States Sports Academy family learned of the passing of one of the institution’s original members of its National Faculty, renowned track and field coach Bob Lawson. Lawson, who worked with Academy President and CEO Dr. Thomas P. Rosandich for decades, was a world-class decathlete whose passion for [...]

Gulf Coast Interstate Relay 2013 — billed as the longest relay in the South — will pass through the United States Sports Academy’s campus in Daphne, Ala., on Friday, April 5. The Academy and its two-dozen volunteers will serve as a Major Transition area for the inaugural GCI Relay, which includes both cycling and running [...]

Dr. Jacques Rogge, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president, reappointed Academy President and CEO Dr. Thomas P. Rosandich to the IOC’s Culture and Olympic Education Commission for 2013. He is currently the only American on an IOC Commission, serving on the Culture and Olympic Education Commission since 1999. The Commission for Culture and Olympic Education advises [...]

The age of the electronic book is well underway and use of the e-book at the United States Sports Academy continues to grow. At this time, there are 38 courses that now use e-books and the reviews on them by students would be mixed to say the least. Just a year ago, we had 18 [...]

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. Master’s Student Jared G. Garner (Lake Park, Ga.) – M.S.S. Sports Coaching Doctoral Student Yu-Jih Liu (Daphne, Ala.) – DSM [...]

Dr. Jacques Rogge, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president, reappointed Academy President and CEO Dr. Thomas P. Rosandich to the IOC’s Culture and Olympic Education Commission for 2013. Dr. T.J. Rosandich, the Academy’s vice president and COO, is preparing to lead a faculty team to Gabon, Africa, to conduct a study of that nation’s sports efforts, [...]

The United States Sports Academy is seeking nominations for its next Sport Artist of the Year. Each year, during the Academy’s Awards of Sport the university has “A Tribute to the Artist and the Athlete.” The awards are given to those who have made significant contributions to sport. This year’s Sport Artist of the Year [...]

A Minnesota art collector recently donated 10 serigraphs of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games by the late sport artist Leroy Neiman to the American Sport Art Museum and Archives (ASAMA). Archie Leyasmeyer, a former University of Minnesota professor, made the donation after reading a Wall Street Journal story about other Neiman artworks on public display [...]