IMG Academy Named in Top 10 Shortlist for World’s Best School Prize in Supporting Healthy Lives Category

BRADENTON, Fla. (June 15, 2023) – Today IMG Academy was named in the top 10 shortlist for the World’s Best School Prizes from T4 Education in the Supporting Healthy Lives Category.

“We are humbled to be recognized by T4 Education for our unprecedented approach to intentional personal development,” said Brent Richard, President of IMG Academy. “To be considered alongside other prestigious global institutions is a very special honor for us, our students and parents.”

IMG Academy is the world’s leading sports education brand with a one-of-a-kind growth environment where everyone is a competitive student-athlete, unified in their pursuit of maximum potential. With its Athletic and Personal Development Program (APD), IMG Academy is the most intentional program in the world at developing the whole student with a proven setting that offers athletic and personal development training in areas like leadership, mental performance, vision training, nutrition, and sports medicine – making it a natural fit for supporting healthy lives.

Between IMG Academy’s on-campus and online offerings, IMG Academy student-athletes fill approximately 25% of all college freshman sports program roster spots annually. In 2022 alone, IMG Academy helped place approximately 30,000 student-athletes into college.

T4 Education developed and created the World’s Best School Prizes in 2022 and the winning categories including Community Collaboration, Environmental Action, Innovation, Overcoming Adversity, and Supporting Healthy Lives. These awards honor and celebrate schools from all over the world for the pivotal role they play in developing the next generation of learners and for their enormous contribution to society’s progress. The Prizes were established to share the best practices of schools that are transforming the lives of their students and making a real difference to their communities.

“The schools shortlisted for the World’s Best School Prizes, no matter where they can be found or what they teach, all have a few things in common – they all have a strong school culture and their leaders know how to attract and motivate exceptional educators, inspire change, and build excellent teaching and learning environments,” said Vikas Pota, Founder of T4 Education and the World’s Best School Prizes. “I must congratulate IMG Academy on being named in the Top 10 shortlists for the World’s Best School Prizes 2023 – many schools across the globe will learn from the story of this trailblazing Florida institution and the culture it has cultivated.”

About IMG Academy

IMG Academy is the world's leading sports education brand, providing a holistic education model that empowers student-athletes to win their future, preparing them for college and for life. IMG Academy provides growth opportunities for all student-athletes through an innovative suite of on-campus and online experiences:

• Boarding school and camps, via a state-of-the-art campus in Bradenton, Fla.
• Online coaching via the IMG Academy+ brand, with a focus on personal development through the lens of sport and performance
• Online college recruiting, via the NCSA brand, providing content, tools, coaching and access to a network of 40,000 college coaches

To learn more about IMG Academy and its on-campus and online experiences, visit www.imgacademy.com.

About T4 Education:

We believe every child everywhere deserves a good education. We are building the world's largest community of teachers and schools to achieve this. Together. Our digital media platform provides opportunities for educators to network, collaborate, share good practices, and support each other's efforts to improve learning and school culture. We work to amplify teachers’ voices because the world we want to see will only be built by listening to those at the heart of education.

Our global community of over 200,000 teachers and our digital media platform provides an engine for organisations to run education prizes that cut through in both the international media and the public consciousness.