The United States Sports Academy will launch its innovative, four-course esports management certification program and its maternity wellness course with partner Bryant & Stratton College at the private institution’s campuses on 25 January 2021. Esports is a form of sport competition using video games, often featuring competitions between multiple players, individually or as teams, in arenas and other venues. The Academy’s esports certification program touches on four areas necessary for sports managers to understand the landscape of the fast-paced, exciting world of esports. Courses touch on the global phenomenon of esports, esports coaching methodology, esports administration, and esports facilities and events management. The maternity wellness course includes faculty facilitated online discussions and students who complete the course will be issued a certification of completion. Interested Bryant & Stratton students can [...]

As the nation marks Giving Tuesday on 1 December 2020, why not use the occasion to support the United States Sports Academy’s ongoing effort to provide quality sports education to students around the world? Giving Tuesday is a national celebration associated with the holidays and the season of giving.  Participants are encouraged to make a gift on that day to charities and non-profits that make a difference in our nation and world. The timing is perfect, as the Academy is currently reaching out to faculty, staff, students, alumni, friends and supporters during its annual fundraising drive. Facebook is one of the many social media companies participating in Giving Tuesday this year. In fact, if you make your donation to the Academy through this link, Facebook has pledged to match your [...]

Mixed media and collage painting art pieces created by the United States Sports Academy’s 1989 Sport Artist of the Year Jim Ridlon will be on exhibit at the New Woodstock (N.Y.) Free Library from Tuesday, 1 December 2020 through the end of January 2021. Ridlon is an internationally recognized artist who has exhibited around the world. He has works in the collections of the Everson Museum of Art, Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, the Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute and scores of others. He was named the Academy’s Sport Artist of the Year in 1989 and has completed commissions for the Walt Disney Corporation, ABC Wide World of Sports and ABC’s Monday Night Football. Ridlon was also a defensive back for the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers and Dallas [...]

The American Sport Art Museum & Archives (ASAMA) recently received a donation of a Liberty bas relief presented in memory of late United States Sports Academy Founding President Dr. Thomas P. Rosandich. Donated by Academy Trustee Jack Scharr, the bronze bas relief depicts the Statue of Liberty and features a plaque that memorializes the life of the Academy founder. Scharr, the president of Fine Art Limited in St. Louis, said the Liberty piece is one in a series depicting the fourteen major ethnic groups that entered the United States through Ellis Island. The Liberty piece was originally sculpted in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the donation of the Statue of Liberty from France to the United States. Rosandich was a first generation American born in Sheboygan Falls, Wisc., in [...]

For the first time in its 48-year history, the United States Sports Academy in Spring semester 2021 will begin admitting Freshman students into its renowned sport education degree programs. The Academy has received accreditor approval to begin offering the first years of the Bachelor of Sports Science (B.S.S.) degree program to complement its longstanding and highly regarded bachelor’s degree completion program. Founded as a graduate school of sport in 1972, the Academy admitted its first bachelor’s degree students in the Fall semester of 2004. The Academy’s application for four-year bachelor’s status was recently approved by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). The landmark change means that the institution will begin admitting freshmen for a four-year B.S.S. degree program and teaching general educational core curriculum courses [...]

The United States Sports Academy is pleased to announce online voting is open for its Athlete of the Month ballot for the month of October, featuring 12 candidates from nine countries who made an impact in their sport during the month. Everyone is encouraged to cast a vote on the Academy’s website at www.ussa.edu. Voting will continue until 5 p.m. Central time on Thursday, 12 November 2020. Male nominees are Tom Brady, football, United States; Nathan Chen, figure skating, United States; Joshua Cheptegei, athletics, Uganda; Tao Geoghegan Hart, cycling, United Kingdom; Rafael Nadal, tennis, Spain; and Corey Seager, baseball United States. Female nominees are Mariah Bell, figure skating, United States; Letesenbet Gidey, athletics, Ethiopia; Sifan Hassan, athletics, the Netherlands; Peres Jepchirchir, athletics, Kenya; Kim Sei-young, golf, South Korea; and Iga [...]

The United States Sports Academy is partnering with Bryant & Stratton College to provide an esports management certification program to students at the private college’s Virginia campuses. The Academy has agreed to offer its innovative, four-course Certification in Esports Management program to Bryant & Stratton students beginning soon. Esports is a form of sport competition using video games, often featuring competitions between multiple players, individually or as teams, in arenas and other venues. The Academy’s esports certification program touches on four areas necessary for sports managers to understand the landscape of the fast-paced, exciting world of esports. Courses touch on the global phenomenon of esports, esports coaching methodology, esports administration, and esports facilities and events management. Esports have swept the nation in the last few years because of the increasing [...]