Academy Sports and Outdoors, Inc. announced, effective immediately, the appointments of Beryl B. Raff to its Board of Directors and Compensation Committee and Wendy A. Beck, currently a member of the Board and its Audit Committee, as a member and chairperson of the Nominating & Governance Committee. Academy also announced that Vishal V. Patel and Aileen X. Yan, both designees of affiliates of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. ("KKR"), have resigned from the Board, effective immediately, following a reduction in KKR's holdings in Academy through a secondary public offering that closed . As a result of these changes, Academy's Board now comprises nine directors, including six independent directors.