{"id":290389,"date":"2023-04-27T17:30:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T17:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=290389"},"modified":"2023-04-27T17:59:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T17:59:52","slug":"florida-powerhouse-img-academy-sold-for-1-25-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=290389","title":{"rendered":"Florida powerhouse IMG Academy sold for $1.25 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">One of the country&#8217;s best high school football and basketball schools\u2014and really, most all sports\u2014has been sold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/story\/news\/local\/manatee\/2023\/04\/25\/bradenton-based-img-academy-to-be-sold-in-1-25-billion-deal-eqt-nord-anglia-endeavor\/70150590007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">According to a report<\/a> by Herald-Tribune&#8217;s Derek Gilliam, <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, has been sold by Endeavor Group Holdings to private equity group BPEA EQT for a total of $1.25 billion. Endeavor president Mark Shapiro says the school is in good hands.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_101508414\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101508414\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101508414\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/USATSI_20356212-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-101508414\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue Cain of the IMG Academy celebrates a teammates dunk against Prolific Prep in GEICO High School Nationals quarterfinal game ay Suncoast Credit Union Arena.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;With Asia being IMG Academy\u2019s largest source of international students, BPEA EQT sees strong potential to support the Company\u2019s expansion across multiple markets in the region, including Singapore, India, Vietnam, Greater China, and Indonesia,&#8221; EQT said in a Tuesday news release. &#8220;BPEA EQT plans to leverage its proven sector expertise within education and track record from having supported its existing portfolio company Nord Anglia Education\u2019s international growth over the past 15 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">IMG is a private, sports-centric school that costs nearly $90,000 per year in tuition and boarding, per the Wall Street Journal.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_101498624\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101498624\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101498624\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/USATSI_18899786-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"646\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-101498624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The annual Kickoff Classic, at the newly-renovated, upgraded bleachers and new LED lights at Joe Kinnan Field at Hawkins Stadium in Bradenton, on Friday August, 19, 2022. Manatee Hurricanes won the game 30 to 21 over the IMG Academy White (Ascenders).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Some of the nation&#8217;s best high school football players attend, including several members on our list of the\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/lists\/2023-top-high-school-football-recruits-ncaa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Top 100 football recruits<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0in the 2023 class. Their\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2022\/final-2022-usa-today-sports-super-25-high-school-football-rankings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">varsity team ranked No. 7<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0in our final Super 25 rankings of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>More football stories<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/lists\/2023-nfl-draft-where-did-the-top-31-prospects-play-in-high-school\">2023 NFL draft: Where the top prospects played HS football<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/michigan-now-ranked-no-1-nationally-after-adding-2-more-four-star-recruits\">Michigan now No. 1 nationally in the &#8217;24 recruiting rankings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Some of the nation&#8217;s best high school football players attend.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":290391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290423,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290389\/revisions\/290423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/290391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}