Jon Prusmack

Jon Prusmack is a former United States national rugby team player and is currently a sports entrepreneur. Prusmack is the founder and CEO of United World Sports (UWS), a sports marketing and event company.[1] UWS owns and operates the annual USA Sevens, an international rugby sevens tournament held every February at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas. The USA Sevens is the largest annual rugby sevens tournament in North America.[1] UWS also owns and operates the annual Collegiate Rugby Championship, a college rugby sevens tournament held every June at PPL Park in Philadelphia.[1]

Prusmack also started Scrumdown in 1975, a magazine about rugby in the United States, which was later renamed Rugby Mag, and whose publication continues today.[2]

During his playing days, Prusmack played for the New York Athletic Club, and later served at NYAC coach and also as a referee for the Met NY RFU.[3] Prusmack was the first American to write a rugby coaching book.[3] Prusmack was inducted into the New York Athletic Club Hall of Fame in 2012.

Before founding United World Sports, Prusmack was involved in a number of other successful ventures including DHS Technologies LLC, which is best known for its Deployable Rapid Assembly Shelter, DRASH. In 2003, he was the EY Metropolitan New York 2003 Entrepreneur Of The Year in the Manufacturing & Distribution category.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Growth of Collegiate Rugby Championship Evidence of Sport's Rising Popularity", Forbes, Jason Belzer, May 30, 2015.
  2. ↑ "The 40th anniversary of US rugby's publication", Rugby Today, Allyn Freeman, May 6, 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Five Inducted into NYAC Hall of Fame", Rugby Today, January 17, 2012.
  4. ↑ EY Entrepreneur of The Year Hall of Fame
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