The United States Sports Academy features the largest sport education program in the world and was founded partly in response to the below-expected performance of the US at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
The first departmental major in Anatomy, Physiology, and Physical Training was created at Harvard University in 1891.
The Cooper Institute is named after Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper, an Air Force physician and former tack star who introduced America to the term "aerobics" back in the 1960s.
Grambling State University has the only master's program in Sport Administration offered at a historically black college or university (HBCU) in the US.
Sport in Society at Northeastern University is a social justice organization that uses sport to create social change both nationally and internationally.
A professor of kinesiology at Iowa State University helped design the new Speedo LZR racing swimsuits worn at the Beijing Olympics. |