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Military Academy in Rio de Janeiro, 1888. In 1792, Queen Mary I of Portugal and Brazil founded the Real Academia de Artilharia, Fortificação e Desenho (Royal Academy of Artillery, Fortification and Drawing) in Rio de Janeiro, modeled after the existing Academy in Lisbon, intended to train artillery and engineering officers of the Portuguese Army in Brazil.
This list is drawn from alumni of the Military Academy who are athletes or athletic coaches. Eleven alumni have competed in the Olympic Games as athletes or coaches. The first was George S. Patton (class of 1909) in the modern pentathlon at the 1912 Summer Olympics. The most recent is Mike Krzyzewski (class of 1969), who was head coach of the U ...
The United States Military Academy (USMA) is an undergraduate college in West Point, New York with the mission of educating and commissioning officers for the United States Army. The academy was founded in 1802 and is the oldest of the United States' five service academies. [1] [2] It is also referred to as West Point (the name of the military ...
Pat Baldwin, college basketball coach for the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Jim Burns, former NBA and ABA player [35] Nia Coffey (born 1995), WNBA player; Drew Crawford (born 1990), basketball player who last played for Bnei Herzliya of the Israeli Ligat HaAl [36] Frank Ehmann, All-American basketball player [37]
Eastern Military Academy ( EMA) was a high school military academy founded in 1944 in Connecticut, United States, by Roland R. Robinson, a former mathematics teacher at Peekskill Military Academy (now also defunct), and his brother-in-law, Carleton Witham. The relationship with the local town was poor from the start, and in 1948 the school ...
Army Black Knights men's basketball. The Army Black Knights men's basketball team represents the United States Military Academy in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college basketball. Army currently competes as a member of the Patriot League and plays its home games at Christl Arena in West Point, New York .
Brazil's national basketball team remains among the most successful in the Americas. It is the only team besides the United States, that has appeared at every FIBA Basketball World Cup, since it was first held in 1950 . Throughout its history, the Brazilian national team has won two FIBA World Cup gold medals ( 1959 and 1963 ), three Summer ...
Cordrea Tankersley. James Thomas (basketball) Art Thoms. William M. Tuck. Jyles Tucker. Mike Tyson (American football)