Thomas P. Rosandich

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Thomas P. Rosandich (* 7. August 1932 in Sheboygan Falls , Wisconsin ) is a former Specialist of United States Marine Corps , track coach, sports official and the owner and president of the United States Sports Academy .

Life

After graduating from high school, Rosandich, the son of immigrants from Croatia , received an athletics and football scholarship from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse , from which he graduated in 1954 with a bachelor's degree in physical exercise . He then signed up for twenty years in the United States Marine Corps , where he became the athletics and cross-country trainer of the entire Marine Corps in 1956 and coached their athletes at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne . Because of his success, he was entrusted with public relations tasks as part of the US Ambassadors of Sport program , from which the Peace Corps' sports programs developed. In the following decades he worked mainly in Southeast Asia and was a. a. National coach for athletics in Malaysia , Laos , Singapore , Borneo and Indonesia . At the National Sports Institute in Indonesia, he also obtained a master's degree in sports administration. After he returned to the University of Wisconsin Parkside (1967–1972) and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1972–1976) as a sports director , he founded the permanent training camp Olympia Sport Village (1966), which started the boom in continuous running USA took advantage. He remained permanently connected to the sports directors as a member of their committees. From his experience in Asia working with coaches, especially from the former Eastern Bloc , he had seen that American training science was far behind. Therefore, he founded the United States Sports Academy in 1972 and took over its management full-time in 1976 when he relocated it south to Alabama . Here, trainers were initially trained and trained. In the meantime, he himself had completed his doctorate in sports science at the Union Graduate School in Ohio with a thesis on the International Physical Fitness Test , which he a. a. applied to all students in Bahrain . Rosandich ran the Academy until 2015 when he passed responsibility to his son.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.utt.edu.tt/ichpersd/ichper_bio_thomas.pdf on . January 7, 2017
  2. ↑ http://www.zoominfo.com/CachedPage/?archive_id=942578176&page_id=-1430291744&page_url=//www.nacda.com/nacda/nacda-auxiliary-continuing.html&page_last_updated=2009-08-08T19:24:33&firstName=TJ&lastName = Rosandich up . January 7, 2017
  3. ↑ Arnd Krüger : The trainer in the American educational system. Competitive sport , 7th year, No. 5/1977, pages 425–439; http://www.iat.uni-leipzig.de:8080/vdok.FAU/1977_5_425439_krueger.pdf?sid=13A437C5&dm=1&apos=6868&rpos=1977_5_425439_krueger.pdf&ipos=8483 auf. January 7, 2017
  4. ↑ http://thesportdigest.com/2016/12/academy-presents-honorary-doctorate-to-founder-dr-thomas-p-rosandich/ on . January 7, 2017
  5. ↑ http://uwlathletics.com/hof.aspx?hof=150 on . January 7, 2017
  6. ↑ http://ussa.edu/news/academy-president-and-ceo-dr-thomas-p-rosandich-earns-liberty-award/ on . January 7, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Rosandich, Thomas P.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American athletics coach, President of the United States Sports Academy
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Sheboygan Falls , Wisconsin