Dr. Michael 'Mickey' D. Kerr Sr.

Dr. Mickey Kerr has gone from building baseball teams as a college coach to building a Sports Management program at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, Texas.

Kerr became a college head baseball coach at the age of 23 and served as a Mary Hardin-Baylor baseball coach for eight years until 2001. Then he earned his doctorate in Sports Management from the United States Sports Academy and transitioned from the dugout to the classroom.

Dexter Tenison

Dexter Tenison, who earned a United States Sports Academy master’s degree in Sports Studies in 2009, is one of the featured authors in a new best-selling book “The Wellness Code: Your Ultimate Guide to Health, Fitness and Nutrition.”

Tenison contributed a chapter on nutrition, “Eight Tips to Help You Improve and Keep Your Nutritional Habits,” to the book. John Spencer Ellis brought together more than two-dozen leading authorities, including Tenison, to share their advice about developing healthy bodies and healthy minds.

Dr. Fred Cromartie

Dr. Fred Cromartie has spent the past 18 years at the United States Sports Academy as a student, admissions counselor, professor and department head, including Student Services, Academic Affairs and Sports Management.

Currently, Cromartie teaches undergraduate, master’s and doctoral courses and serves as the Director of Doctoral Studies and. In that position, he supervises one of the world’s largest doctoral programs in sports education with more than 180 students. Cromartie has also taught oversees in Bahrain and Malaysia for the Academy.

Dr. Dave Shrock

For the first time in his 37 year career, Dave Shrock was chosen by USA Track and Field to coach the men’s distance athletes at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Track and Field Championships in Istanbul, Turkey.

Shrock, who earned his doctorate in Sports Management in 2009 from the Academy and serves as a national faculty member, calls the March 9-11 event simply “awesome.” The 57-year-old Modesto Junior College coach served on a 10 person USATF staff which directed the world’s best women’s and men’s track and field athletes in an important lead-up to the 2012 London Olympic Games in August.

Dr. Roy Patton

Dr. Roy Patton picked up where he left off 15 years ago in the South Alabama region—winning soccer games as a head coach and elevating the sport in the area.

Patton, who earned his doctorate from the Academy in 2002, completed his first year as the head coach of the University of Mobile men’s soccer team by guiding them to a No. 4 ranking in the country. The Rams reached the Round of 16 at the 2011 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Men’s Soccer National Championships.

Ryan Capretta

Hundreds of draft choices are attending the National Football League (NFL) Scouting Combine in February, and Ryan Capretta helped train 12 of them who hoped to increase their prospects. They came to the veteran strength and conditioning coach because of Capretta’s record of success that includes training more than 20 first round draft picks, 30 NFL Pro Bowl selections and four Super Bowl most valuable players.

Greg McDermott

His men’s basketball team appears a shoe-in for its first NCAA Division I tournament in five years. His son, Doug, is among the NCAA leaders in scoring and is mentioned as a contender for college player of the year.

Creighton University basketball coach Greg McDermott says this season has been a “wonderful experience.” McDermott, a 1994 graduate of the United States Sports Academy, took over the Bluejays’ program in Omaha, Neb., last year.

Derek Demperio

Derek Demperio has always wanted to work in the sports industry in a position helping to run the team. But rather than wait for the job he wanted, he created it.

The 32-year-old Demperio founded the Onondaga Community College Ogres football team this season and serves as its general manager. The college, which sits in the large shadow of Syracuse University, didn’t have a team.

Steven DeCou

Two weeks into his new job of establishing the men’s soccer program at Georgia Gwinnett College from scratch, Steven DeCou is slightly busy.

He must assemble a team and has three recruits, so far. Then, there’s hiring an assistant coach and completing an 18-game schedule for the Lawrenceville, Ga., university.

Mark Janas

The idea for entrepreneur Mark Janas’ latest technology company evolved from a paper he had to write for one of his doctoral classes.

The idea? Create a service that allows sports fans to keep track of scores and news on their favorite teams in youth, high school, college or amateur ranks through their mobile phones.

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