Retailer continues to broaden its nationwide footprint whereas remaining invested in native communities
KATY, Texas, Might 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Academy Sports + Outdoors (“Academy” or the “Firm”) (Nasdaq: ASO), a number one full-line sporting items and outside recreation retailer, is happy to announce it’ll open three new places this quarter. The primary retailer will open in Altoona, Pa.; which marks the third retailer within the state, adopted by two new Tennessee places in North Knoxville, Tenn. and Morristown, Tenn. The openings construct on momentum from two new store openings in Q1, reinforcing Academy’s ongoing dedication to strategic long-term progress. With every new location, Academy stays targeted on serving native communities with a broad assortment of high-quality gear at on a regular basis worth.
“Our focus stays on staying grounded in what issues most, which is serving households within the communities we name residence by making it simpler to play, compete, and benefit from the outdoor with out breaking the financial institution,” stated Eric Friederich, Senior Vice President of Retail Operations at Academy Sports activities + Outdoor. “We all know enjoyable cannot lose after we pair unbeatable worth with the native accessibility clients can depend on.”
Academy plans to have fun every new retailer by donating $15,000 to help greater than 60 youngsters by native non-profit organizations together with Massive Brothers Massive Sisters of Blair County, Boys & Ladies Golf equipment of the Tennessee Valley and Boys & Ladies Membership of Morristown. Every location will host a grand opening weekend that includes unique offers and giveaways, a ribbon chopping ceremony, and enjoyable for the whole household. The Altoona grand opening weekend might be marked with a meet-and-greet expertise that includes collegiate quarterback Rocco Becht. Followers of the soccer star can anticipate to get their gear autographed and snap a photograph with Becht.
In pursuit of turning into the very best sports activities and outdoor retailer within the nation, Academy opened a complete of 24 new stores across 16 states in 2025, together with its first places in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Academy’s growth efforts resulted in 16 new stores across 10 different states in 2024.
Academy’s retailer progress is supported by continued investments that improve the client expertise, together with the current rollout of the brand new myAcademy Rewards Mastercard® Credit Card, and enhanced myAcademy Rewards program, offering cardmembers and constant clients with unique advantages and methods to save lots of. Collectively, these initiatives reinforce Academy’s dedication to delivering unbeatable worth each in-store and past.
Each Academy retailer is a enjoyable vacation spot the place households can discover attire, footwear, sports activities, mountain climbing and tenting gear, looking and fishing gear, outside cooking, and extra from high nationwide manufacturers at an on a regular basis worth. Academy additionally offers free services akin to grill and bike meeting, scope mounting, bore sighting, line winding/spooling, and propane alternate. Looking and fishing licenses are additionally obtainable to buy in shops.
Moreover, Academy presents great worth and high quality by its unique, personal label manufacturers akin to Magellan Outdoors, Freely, R.O.W., BCG, H2OX, Redfield, and Mosaic, which provide nice selections for outside attire and gear for the whole household, girls’s and males’s attire, exercise apparel, fishing gear, looking optics and equipment, and outside furnishings, respectively.
Prospects can discover the very best assortment of athletic and informal footwear, sports activities and outdoor gear, and clothes from high nationwide manufacturers akin to Nike, adidas, Carhartt, YETI, Stanley, Marucci, Titleist, Shimano, Brooks, Blackstone, Owala and extra, in-store and online, and thru the Academy mobile app.
Mixed, the three new shops are anticipated to carry almost 200 whole new jobs to their native communities. People excited by careers at Academy can go to careers.academy.com to use for open positions.
About Academy Sports activities + Outdoor
Academy is a number one full-line sporting items and outside recreation retailer in the USA. Initially based in 1938 as a household enterprise in Texas, Academy has grown to greater than 300 shops throughout 21 states and counting. Academy’s mission is to offer “Enjoyable for All” and Academy fulfills this mission with a localized merchandising technique and worth proposition that strongly connects with a broad vary of shoppers. Academy’s product assortment focuses on key classes of outside, attire, sports activities & recreation and footwear by each main nationwide manufacturers and a portfolio of personal label manufacturers. For extra data, go to www.academy.com.
Ahead Trying Statements
This press launch incorporates forward-looking statements inside the which means of Part 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Part 21E of the Securities Alternate Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements are based mostly on Academy’s present expectations and are usually not ensures of future efficiency. Ahead-looking statements might incorporate phrases akin to “consider,” “anticipate,” “anticipate,” “ahead,” “forward,” “alternatives,” “plans,” “priorities,” “targets,” “future,” “quick/long run,” “will,” “ought to,” or the detrimental model of those phrases or different comparable phrases. Precise outcomes might differ materially from these expectations as a consequence of modifications in international, regional, or native financial, enterprise, aggressive, market, regulatory and different elements, lots of that are past Academy’s management. These and different essential elements that might trigger precise outcomes to vary materially from these within the forward-looking statements are set forth in Academy’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Alternate Fee (the “SEC”), together with Academy’s Annual Report on Kind 10-Ok below the caption “Half 1A.Threat Components,” as could also be up to date occasionally in our periodic filings with the SEC. Any forward-looking assertion on this press launch speaks solely as of the date of this launch. Academy undertakes no obligation to publicly replace or evaluate any forward-looking assertion, whether or not on account of new data, future developments or in any other case, besides as could also be required by any relevant securities legal guidelines.
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