The United States Sports Academy is working with the Jamaica Olympic and Paralympic Associations to provide post-secondary, non-degree sports education programs to sports coaches in the Caribbean island nation of Jamaica.
Since 2020, the Academy has worked with the JOA and JPA to develop programs that would benefit the nation’s coaches and the national sport effort there. A virtual signing ceremony in December 2020 marked the return of the Academy’s efforts to Jamaica for the first time in more than a decade.
In January, the Academy launched three certificate programs in Sports Management, Adaptive Sports, and Sports Governance in Jamaica to aid the organizations in their mission to promote educational opportunities to their coaches and athletes. Coaches from a wide array of sports are participating, including handball, badminton, judo, taekwondo, gymnastics, baseball, chess, volleyball, lawn tennis and track and field.
Since its founding a half-century ago, the Academy has leveraged its role and resources as a special mission sports university to make a global impact through quality sport instruction, research and service programs in 67 countries around the world. These contributions have varied in scope from the full-charge conduct of a nation’s entire national sport effort to individual coaching clinics, seminars, and symposia. For more about the Academy’s international programs, go to https://ussa.edu/international/
