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After winning the prestigious Wimbledon tennis championship in London, Serbia’s Novak Djokovic and Romania’s Simona Halep have been named the United States Sports Academy’s male and female Athletes of the Month for July. Djokovic won his fifth career Wimbledon title in an epic 7-6 (7-5), 1-6, 7-6 (7-4), 4-6, 13-12 (7-3) battle against longtime rival Roger Federer of Switzerland. It was the first time a tiebreaker round was used to determine the Wimbledon winner. Djokovic has won 16 Grand Slam titles. Halep captured her second Grand Slam title with a 6-2, 6-2 win against American Serena Williams in the Wimbledon final. She became the first Romanian to win a Wimbledon singles title. The second place finisher on the men’s side was American swimmer Caeleb Dressel and third place went to [...]

The Academy congratulates the following graduates who completed their degrees this month. Master’s Graduates John Adamek (Moonachie, N.J.) – M.S.S. Sports Studies, with Highest Honors Sharon B. Mosley (Mobile, Ala.) – M.S.S. Sports Management, with Honors Matthew James Summer (Keaau, Hawaii) – M.S.S. dual degree Sports Coaching and Sports Studies, Sports Psychology emphasis, with Honors Adrienne Wilson (Pensacola, Fla.) – M.S.S. Sports Studies, with Honors

After being inspired by the renowned sport art collection at the American Sport Art Museum & Archives (ASAMA) on the campus of the United States Sports Academy, a handful of students from the Mobile, Ala., area created some award winning sport art of their own. The students – from the Rotary Youth Club, St. Paul’s Academy, and the National Charity League – created art inspired by their recent ASAMA visit. The art was displayed at the Eastern Shore Art Center (ESAC) in Fairhope at First Friday Art Walk to be judged by members of the Academy’s prestigious Art Committee. The Academy’s 2019 Sport Artist of the Year Steven Lester looks at sport art produced by local students with Academy Art Committee chair Nancy Raia and member Susan McCullough. [...]

The Philippines Sports Commission (PSC) is preparing to receive the first of the United States Sports Academy’s faculty being sent to teach the first module of its International Certification in Sports Management (ICSM) program in Pasig City starting 19 August. The Philippines Sports Commission (PSC) signed a Protocol for Cooperation with the Academy in 2017 that started the planning process for the sport education programs to be taught by the Academy here. This event also marks the return of the institution’s international programs in the country since the Academy first taught certification programs here in the early 1980s. “I was among the Academy faculty tapped to teach our international certification programs in sports management and sports coaching in the island nation in the early 1980s, so to return is particularly [...]

The United States Sports Academy recently hosted leaders from the Sports Authority of Thailand (SAT) as part of the institution’s longstanding partnership with that country to prepare students there for careers in sport. The SAT is Thailand’s Central Sport Organization (CSO) that oversees the entire national sports effort in that country. The Academy welcomed to its Daphne, Ala., campus a nine-member SAT delegation led by Deputy Governor for Administration Rashell Daiphontunya, Human Resources Director Somphorn Wannasiri, Policy and Planning Director Preecha Laloon, Sport Personnel Development Director Pasinee Pantumabumrung, and Coordinating Director Nittaya Kerdjuntuk. The group also included Sports Personnel Development Chief Piyawan Banjong, Sport Promotion Officer Phikulkaew Chanpeng, Public Relations Officer Pichet Suwannaphan, and Secretary to the Deputy Governor Nawarat Suwanich. This is the 14th consecutive year that the Academy [...]

Several members of the United States Sports Academy’s faculty attended the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) National Conference in Washington D.C., in July. Dr. Jason Williams, a teaching assistant and recent graduate of the Academy’s doctoral program, and faculty member Robert Herron took part in an oral presentation related to Williams’ doctoral dissertation “The potentiation effects of a sled-towing load corresponding to a 50% velocity decrement on subsequent sprint time in high-school soccer athletes.” Academy vice president of academic affairs Dr. Tomi Wahlstrom also represented in the institution in an administrative capacity at the conference. Additionally, Herron was a part of six other oral- or poster presentations at the conference which explored topics related to NFL Combine performance, longitudinal body-composition tracking in NCAA Division 1 gymnasts, evaluation of low-frequency [...]