DAPHNE, Ala.—Tunku Imran, active in the international sport community and Olympic movement for more than three decades, will be presented with an honorary doctorate from the United States Sports Academy at 10 a.m. this Saturday.

The Malaysian prince and president of the Olympic Council of Malaysia will celebrate his 61st birthday by receiving the award and attending a champagne brunch in his honor on the academy’s Daphne campus.

In the 33 years since Imran played on the Malaysian national squash team—1973-’76—and was his country’s national champion in the sport—1973—he has served the international sport community and promoted sport and Olympic ideals worldwide.

Imran has served as president of the Olympic Council of Malaysia since 1998; first vice president of the Commonwealth Games Federation since 2003; chairman of the sports committee for the Commonwealth Games Federation since 2003; honorary life president of the Southeast Asian Games Federation since 2001, patron of the World Squash Federation since 2002; member of the International Council of Arbitration for Sport since 2002; and president of the Malaysian Cricket Association since 1999. Imran has served the International Olympic Committee since 2006 and member of the committee’s Commissions on Sport and Law (since 2002) and Sport For All (since 2006).

Academy President and CEO Thomas Rosandich has worked with Malaysia for more than 50 years. He coached the country’s national track and field team, when the nation was known as Malaya, for the third Asian Games in 1958 in Tokyo, Japan. He also coached programs in Singapore, and two states that are a part of what is now Malaysia, Borneo (then known as Sabah) and Sarawak. He is also creator of the Southeast Asia Games, a biennial multi-sport event involving participants from the current 11 countries of Southeast Asia.