---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001817358-23-000206"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ASO"
cik: "0001817358"
company_name: "Academy Sports & Outdoors, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-09-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T15:08:25.529059+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Academy Sports' principal accounting officer Heather Davis to depart Sept 29; CFO Carl Ford assumes interim role

## Summary
- Heather Davis, SVP Accounting, Treasury and Tax (principal accounting officer), resigns effective Sept 29, 2023 to pursue a new opportunity.
- CFO Carl Ford will serve as interim principal accounting officer until a permanent successor is appointed.
- No disagreement or performance issue cited in the departure.
- Ford's qualifications are incorporated by reference from the July 11, 2023 8-K.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001817358-23-000206
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ASO
- cik: 0001817358
- company_name: Academy Sports & Outdoors, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-09-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1817358/000181735823000206/0001817358-23-000206-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1817358/000181735823000206/aso-20230914.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001817358-23-000206
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001817358-23-000206.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001817358-23-000206.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Heather Davis resigned as Senior Vice President, Accounting, Treasury and Tax (principal accounting officer) at Academy Sports & Outdoors, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Senior Vice President, Accounting, Treasury and Tax (principal accounting officer)
  source text: On September 14, 2023, Heather Davis, Senior Vice President, Accounting, Treasury and Tax (principal accounting officer) of Academy Sports and Outdoors, Inc. (the “Company”), notified the Company that she will be leaving the Company to pursue a new opportunity, effective as of September 29, 2023 (the “Effective Date”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1817358/000181735823000206/0001817358-23-000206-index.htm
- Executive change
  Earl Carlton (Carl) Ford, IV was appointed as Chief Financial Officer (interim principal accounting officer) at Academy Sports & Outdoors, Inc..
  - Action: appointed as interim
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer (interim principal accounting officer)
  source text: As of the Effective Date and until a permanent successor is appointed by the Company, Earl Carlton (Carl) Ford, IV, the Company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer will assume responsibility for the function of principal accounting officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1817358/000181735823000206/0001817358-23-000206-index.htm

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