---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001817358-21-000159"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ASO"
cik: "0001817358"
company_name: "Academy Sports & Outdoors, Inc."
filed_at: "2021-08-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T21:55:34.796212+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Academy Sports + Outdoors appoints former Victoria's Secret CEO Sharen Turney to board

## Summary
- Sharen J. Turney appointed as independent Class II director effective August 5, 2021, expanding board to nine members.
- Turney previously served as President and CEO of Victoria's Secret and Victoria's Secret Direct, plus Neiman Marcus Direct.
- She will serve on the Compensation Committee and Nominating and Governance Committee; Nate Taylor steps down from Governance Committee.
- Board cites Turney's retail, e-commerce, and digital experience as key to Academy's growth phase.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001817358-21-000159
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ASO
- cik: 0001817358
- company_name: Academy Sports & Outdoors, Inc.
- filed_at: 2021-08-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1817358/000181735821000159/0001817358-21-000159-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1817358/000181735821000159/form8-ksjt.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001817358-21-000159
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001817358-21-000159.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001817358-21-000159.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Sharen J. Turney was appointed as independent Class II director at Academy Sports & Outdoors, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: independent Class II director
  source text: Effective August 5, 2021, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Academy Sports and Outdoors, Inc. (the "Company") increased the size of the Board by one director (to a total size of nine directors) and filled the resulting vacancy created by such increase by appointing Sharen J. Turney, 64, as an independent Class II director.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1817358/000181735821000159/0001817358-21-000159-index.htm

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