<PAGE>   1
     AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON APRIL 30, 2001

                                                      REGISTRATION NO. 333-_____
================================================================================

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

                                   ----------

                                    FORM S-8
             REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                                   ----------

                             COLLEGIATE PACIFIC INC.
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
          DELAWARE                              5091                    22-2795073
<S>                                 <C>                              <C>
(State or other jurisdiction of     (Primary standard industrial     (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)       classification code number)     Identification No.)
</TABLE>

                          13950 SENLAC DRIVE, SUITE 100
                               DALLAS, TEXAS 75234
                                 (972) 243-8100

    (Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code,
                  of registrant's principal executive offices)

                                   ----------

                    COLLEGIATE PACIFIC INC. STOCK OPTION PLAN

                            (Full title of the plan)

                                   ----------


            MICHAEL J. BLUMENFELD                  COPIES OF COMMUNICATIONS TO:
           CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
           COLLEGIATE PACIFIC INC.                   MICHAEL R. DOREY, ESQ.
        13950 SENLAC DRIVE, SUITE 100               SAYLES, LIDJI & WERBNER,
            DALLAS, TEXAS 75234                    A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION
               (972) 243-8100                        4400 RENAISSANCE TOWER
                                                         1201 ELM STREET
(NAME, ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, AND TELEPHONE       DALLAS, TEXAS 75270
NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA CODE, OF AGENT FOR SERVICE)        (214) 939-8700


                                   ----------

                       CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
=======================================================================================================
                                               Proposed maximum   Proposed maximum
   Title of each class of        Amount to      offering price        aggregate           Amount of
securities to be registered    be registered      per unit(1)     offering price(1)    registration fee
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S>                            <C>             <C>                <C>                  <C>
   Common Stock, $0.01
   par value per share           1,000,000           $4.69           $4,690,000           $1,172.50
=======================================================================================================
</TABLE>

---------

(1)      Estimated pursuant to Rule 457 under the Securities Act of 1933 solely
         for the purpose of calculating the registration fee based on 252,000
         shares reserved for issuance and subject to options already granted and
         748,000 shares reserved for issuance under future options.

================================================================================
<PAGE>   2


                                     PART I

              INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

         The document(s) containing the information specified in this Part I of
Form S-8 (plan information and registrant information) will be sent or given to
employees as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933. Such
documents need not be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission either
as a part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus
supplements pursuant to Rule 424 of the Securities Act of 1933. These documents,
which include the statement of availability required by Item 2 of Form S-8, and
the documents incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement pursuant
to Item 3 of Form S-8 (Part II hereof), taken together, constitute a prospectus
that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act of 1933.


                                     PART II

                 INFORMATION REQUIRED IN REGISTRATION STATEMENT


ITEM 3.  INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.

         Collegiate Pacific Inc. (the "Company") hereby incorporates by
reference into this registration statement the following documents previously
filed with the Commission:

         (1)      the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year
                  ended June 30, 2000;

         (2)      the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB for the three
                  months ended September 30, 2000;

         (3)      the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB for the three
                  months ended December 31, 2000; and

         (4)      the description of the Company's common stock contained in the
                  Company's registration statement on Form SB-2, No. 333-64471,
                  effective as of October 26, 1998, including any amendment or
                  report filed for the purpose of updating such description.

All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a),
13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, prior to the filing
of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have
been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be
deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to
be part thereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement
contained herein or in a document, all or a portion of which is incorporated or
deemed to be incorporated by reference herein, shall be deemed to be modified or
superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a
statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which
also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or
supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall
not be deemed, except as so modified or amended, to constitute a part of this
Registration Statement.



<PAGE>   3
ITEM 4.  DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.

         The Company's Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, is registered
pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and, therefore,
the description of securities is omitted.

ITEM 5. INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.

         Not applicable.

ITEM 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

         The Certificate of Incorporation of the Company provides for the
indemnification of directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by the
Delaware General Corporation Law.

         Generally, the Delaware General Corporation Law permits a corporation
to indemnify a person who was or is an officer, director, agent, or employee, or
who serves at the corporation's request as an officer, director, agent, or
employee, of another corporation, partnership, trust joint venture, or other
enterprise ("nominee"), who was, is, or is threatened to be named a defendant in
a legal proceeding by virtue of such person's position in the corporation or
nominee, but only if the person acted in good faith and reasonably believed that
the conduct was in or at least not opposed to the corporation's best interest,
and, in the case of a criminal proceeding, the person had no reasonable cause to
believe the conduct was unlawful. A person may be indemnified within the above
limitations against judgments, fines, settlements, and reasonable expenses
actually incurred. Generally, an officer director, agent, or employee of the
corporation or nominee may not be indemnified, however, against judgments,
fines, and settlements incurred in a proceeding in which the person is found
liable to the corporation and may not be indemnified for expenses unless, and
only to the extent that, in view of all the circumstances, the person is fairly
and reasonably entitled to indemnification for such expenses. A corporation must
indemnify a director, officer, employee, or agent against reasonable expenses
incurred in connection with a proceeding in which the person is a party because
of the person's corporate position, if the person was successful, on the merits
or otherwise, in the defense of the proceeding. Under certain circumstances, a
corporation may also advance expenses to such person. Under the Delaware General
Corporation Law, a corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of
any person who is or was a director, officer, employee, or agent of the
corporation against any liability asserted against and incurred by the person in
such capacity, or arising out of the person's status as such a person,
regardless of whether the applicable law otherwise empowers the corporation to
indemnify that person against such liability.


ITEM 7.  EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.

         None.


                                       2
<PAGE>   4

ITEM 8.  EXHIBITS

         The following documents are filed as a part of this Registration
Statement. Where such filing is made by incorporation by reference to a
previously filed report, such report is identified. The Index to Exhibits
included with the exhibits is filed as a part of this report.

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
         Exhibit                  Description
         -------                  -----------
<S>               <C>
         4.1      Collegiate Pacific Inc. Stock Option Plan, as amended,
                  including a form of option agreement

         5.1      Opinion of Sayles, Lidji & Werbner, P.C.

         23.1     Consent of Sayles, Lidji & Werbner, P.C. (included in their
                  opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1)

         23.2     Consent of Grant Thornton LLP

         24.1     Power of Attorney (see signature page of this Registration
                  Statement)
</TABLE>

ITEM 9.  UNDERTAKINGS

         (a) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

                  (1) to file, during any period in which offers or sales are
                  being made, a post- effective amendment to this registration
                  statement to include any material information with respect to
                  the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the
                  registration statement or any material change to such
                  information in the registration statement;

                  (2) that for the purpose of determining any liability under
                  the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall
                  be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
                  securities offered therein, and the offering of such
                  securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
                  fide offering thereof; and

                  (3) to remove from registration by means of a post-effective
                  amendment any of the securities being registered which remain
                  unsold at the termination of the offering.

         (b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
         determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing
         of the registrant's annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section
         15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable,
         each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to
         section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is
         incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed
         to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
         therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be
         deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

         (c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
         Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and
         controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing
         provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the
         opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission of 1933 such
         indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities
         Act of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim
         for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by
         the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or
         controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any
         action, suit, or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or
         controlling person in connection with the securities being registered,
         the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
         has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of
         appropriate jurisdiction of the question whether such indemnification
         by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of
         1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.


                                       3
<PAGE>   5

                                   SIGNATURES

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration
statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereto duly authorized
in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on the 30th day of April, 2001.

                                            COLLEGIATE PACIFIC INC.

                                            By: /s/ Michael J. Blumenfeld
                                                --------------------------------
                                                Michael J. Blumenfeld,
                                                Chief Executive Officer


                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         Each individual whose signature appears below hereby designates and
appoints Michael J. Blumenfeld and William R. Estill, as such person's true and
lawful attorney-in-fact and agent (the "Attorney- in-Fact") with full power of
substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in such person's name,
place, and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments
(including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement, which
amendments may make such changes in this registration statement as either
Attorney-in-Fact deems appropriate and requests to accelerate the effectiveness
of this registration statement, and to file each such amendment with all
exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the Securities
and Exchange Commission, granting unto such Attorney-in-Fact and each of them,
full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all
intents and purposes as such person might or could do in person, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that such Attorney-in-Fact or either of them, or
their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities indicated on the 30th day of April, 2001.

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
               SIGNATURE                               TITLE
               ---------                               -----
<S>                                      <C>
/s/ Michael J. Blumenfeld                   Chief Executive Officer and Director
--------------------------------------         (Principal Executive Officer)
         William A. Schwartz, Jr.


/s/ William R. Estill                       Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Treasurer
--------------------------------------        (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
         William R. Estill


/s/ Adam Blumenfeld                         President and Director
--------------------------------------
         Adam Blumenfeld


/s/ Arthur J. Coerver                       Chief Operating Officer and Director
--------------------------------------
         Arthur J. Coerver


/s/ Harvey Rothenberg                       Vice President Marketing and Director
--------------------------------------
         Harvey Rothenberg


/s/ Jeff Davidowitz                         Director
--------------------------------------
         Jeff Davidowitz


/s/ William A. Watkins, Jr.                 Director
--------------------------------------
         William A. Watkins, Jr.


/s/ Robert W. Hampton                       Director
--------------------------------------
         Robert W. Hampton
</TABLE>


<PAGE>   6

                                INDEX TO EXHIBITS


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
EXHIBIT
  NO.                         DESCRIPTION OF EXHIBIT
-------                       ----------------------
<S>      <C>
 4.1     Collegiate Pacific Inc. Stock Option Plan, as amended, including a form
         of option agreement

 5.1     Opinion of Sayles, Lidji & Werbner, P.C.

23.1     Consent of Sayles, Lidji & Werbner, P.C. (included in their opinion
         filed as Exhibit 5.1)

23.2     Consent of Grant Thornton LLP

24.1     Power of Attorney (see signature page of this Registration Statement)
</TABLE>
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1
     AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON APRIL 30, 2001

                                                      REGISTRATION NO. 333-_____
================================================================================

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

                                   ----------

                                    FORM S-8
             REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                                   ----------

                             COLLEGIATE PACIFIC INC.
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
DELAWARE                              5091                    22-2795073
(State or other jurisdiction of     (Primary standard industrial     (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)       classification code number)     Identification No.)
13950 SENLAC DRIVE, SUITE 100
                               DALLAS, TEXAS 75234
                                 (972) 243-8100

    (Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code,
                  of registrant's principal executive offices)

                                   ----------

                    COLLEGIATE PACIFIC INC. STOCK OPTION PLAN

                            (Full title of the plan)

                                   ----------

            MICHAEL J. BLUMENFELD                  COPIES OF COMMUNICATIONS TO:
           CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
           COLLEGIATE PACIFIC INC.                   MICHAEL R. DOREY, ESQ.
        13950 SENLAC DRIVE, SUITE 100               SAYLES, LIDJI & WERBNER,
            DALLAS, TEXAS 75234                    A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION
               (972) 243-8100                        4400 RENAISSANCE TOWER
                                                         1201 ELM STREET
(NAME, ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, AND TELEPHONE       DALLAS, TEXAS 75270
NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA CODE, OF AGENT FOR SERVICE)        (214) 939-8700

                                   ----------

                       CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
=======================================================================================================
                                               Proposed maximum   Proposed maximum
   Title of each class of        Amount to      offering price        aggregate           Amount of
securities to be registered    be registered      per unit(1)     offering price(1)    registration fee
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Common Stock, $0.01
   par value per share           1,000,000           $4.69           $4,690,000           $1,172.50
=======================================================================================================
---------

(1)      Estimated pursuant to Rule 457 under the Securities Act of 1933 solely
         for the purpose of calculating the registration fee based on 252,000
         shares reserved for issuance and subject to options already granted and
         748,000 shares reserved for issuance under future options.

================================================================================
2

                                     PART I

              INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

         The document(s) containing the information specified in this Part I of
Form S-8 (plan information and registrant information) will be sent or given to
employees as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933. Such
documents need not be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission either
as a part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus
supplements pursuant to Rule 424 of the Securities Act of 1933. These documents,
which include the statement of availability required by Item 2 of Form S-8, and
the documents incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement pursuant
to Item 3 of Form S-8 (Part II hereof), taken together, constitute a prospectus
that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act of 1933.

                                     PART II

                 INFORMATION REQUIRED IN REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3.  INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.

         Collegiate Pacific Inc. (the "Company") hereby incorporates by
reference into this registration statement the following documents previously
filed with the Commission:

         (1)      the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year
                  ended June 30, 2000;

         (2)      the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB for the three
                  months ended September 30, 2000;

         (3)      the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB for the three
                  months ended December 31, 2000; and

         (4)      the description of the Company's common stock contained in the
                  Company's registration statement on Form SB-2, No. 333-64471,
                  effective as of October 26, 1998, including any amendment or
                  report filed for the purpose of updating such description.

All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a),
13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, prior to the filing
of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have
been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be
deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to
be part thereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement
contained herein or in a document, all or a portion of which is incorporated or
deemed to be incorporated by reference herein, shall be deemed to be modified or
superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a
statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which
also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or
supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall
not be deemed, except as so modified or amended, to constitute a part of this
Registration Statement.
3
ITEM 4.  DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.

         The Company's Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, is registered
pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and, therefore,
the description of securities is omitted.

ITEM 5. INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.

         Not applicable.

ITEM 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

         The Certificate of Incorporation of the Company provides for the
indemnification of directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by the
Delaware General Corporation Law.

         Generally, the Delaware General Corporation Law permits a corporation
to indemnify a person who was or is an officer, director, agent, or employee, or
who serves at the corporation's request as an officer, director, agent, or
employee, of another corporation, partnership, trust joint venture, or other
enterprise ("nominee"), who was, is, or is threatened to be named a defendant in
a legal proceeding by virtue of such person's position in the corporation or
nominee, but only if the person acted in good faith and reasonably believed that
the conduct was in or at least not opposed to the corporation's best interest,
and, in the case of a criminal proceeding, the person had no reasonable cause to
believe the conduct was unlawful. A person may be indemnified within the above
limitations against judgments, fines, settlements, and reasonable expenses
actually incurred. Generally, an officer director, agent, or employee of the
corporation or nominee may not be indemnified, however, against judgments,
fines, and settlements incurred in a proceeding in which the person is found
liable to the corporation and may not be indemnified for expenses unless, and
only to the extent that, in view of all the circumstances, the person is fairly
and reasonably entitled to indemnification for such expenses. A corporation must
indemnify a director, officer, employee, or agent against reasonable expenses
incurred in connection with a proceeding in which the person is a party because
of the person's corporate position, if the person was successful, on the merits
or otherwise, in the defense of the proceeding. Under certain circumstances, a
corporation may also advance expenses to such person. Under the Delaware General
Corporation Law, a corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of
any person who is or was a director, officer, employee, or agent of the
corporation against any liability asserted against and incurred by the person in
such capacity, or arising out of the person's status as such a person,
regardless of whether the applicable law otherwise empowers the corporation to
indemnify that person against such liability.

ITEM 7.  EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.

         None.

                                       2
4

ITEM 8.  EXHIBITS

         The following documents are filed as a part of this Registration
Statement. Where such filing is made by incorporation by reference to a
previously filed report, such report is identified. The Index to Exhibits
included with the exhibits is filed as a part of this report.
Exhibit                  Description
         -------                  -----------
4.1      Collegiate Pacific Inc. Stock Option Plan, as amended,
                  including a form of option agreement

         5.1      Opinion of Sayles, Lidji & Werbner, P.C.

         23.1     Consent of Sayles, Lidji & Werbner, P.C. (included in their
                  opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1)

         23.2     Consent of Grant Thornton LLP

         24.1     Power of Attorney (see signature page of this Registration
                  Statement)
ITEM 9.  UNDERTAKINGS

         (a) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

                  (1) to file, during any period in which offers or sales are
                  being made, a post- effective amendment to this registration
                  statement to include any material information with respect to
                  the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the
                  registration statement or any material change to such
                  information in the registration statement;

                  (2) that for the purpose of determining any liability under
                  the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall
                  be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
                  securities offered therein, and the offering of such
                  securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
                  fide offering thereof; and

                  (3) to remove from registration by means of a post-effective
                  amendment any of the securities being registered which remain
                  unsold at the termination of the offering.

         (b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
         determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing
         of the registrant's annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section
         15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable,
         each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to
         section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is
         incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed
         to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
         therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be
         deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

         (c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
         Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and
         controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing
         provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the
         opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission of 1933 such
         indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities
         Act of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim
         for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by
         the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or
         controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any
         action, suit, or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or
         controlling person in connection with the securities being registered,
         the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
         has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of
         appropriate jurisdiction of the question whether such indemnification
         by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of
         1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

                                       3
5

                                   SIGNATURES

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration
statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereto duly authorized
in the City of Dallas, State of Texas, on the 30th day of April, 2001.

                                            COLLEGIATE PACIFIC INC.

                                            By: /s/ Michael J. Blumenfeld
                                                --------------------------------
                                                Michael J. Blumenfeld,
                                                Chief Executive Officer

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         Each individual whose signature appears below hereby designates and
appoints Michael J. Blumenfeld and William R. Estill, as such person's true and
lawful attorney-in-fact and agent (the "Attorney- in-Fact") with full power of
substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in such person's name,
place, and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments
(including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement, which
amendments may make such changes in this registration statement as either
Attorney-in-Fact deems appropriate and requests to accelerate the effectiveness
of this registration statement, and to file each such amendment with all
exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the Securities
and Exchange Commission, granting unto such Attorney-in-Fact and each of them,
full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all
intents and purposes as such person might or could do in person, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that such Attorney-in-Fact or either of them, or
their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities indicated on the 30th day of April, 2001.
SIGNATURE                               TITLE
               ---------                               -----
/s/ Michael J. Blumenfeld                   Chief Executive Officer and Director
--------------------------------------         (Principal Executive Officer)
         William A. Schwartz, Jr.

/s/ William R. Estill                       Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Treasurer
--------------------------------------        (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
         William R. Estill

/s/ Adam Blumenfeld                         President and Director
--------------------------------------
         Adam Blumenfeld

/s/ Arthur J. Coerver                       Chief Operating Officer and Director
--------------------------------------
         Arthur J. Coerver

/s/ Harvey Rothenberg                       Vice President Marketing and Director
--------------------------------------
         Harvey Rothenberg

/s/ Jeff Davidowitz                         Director
--------------------------------------
         Jeff Davidowitz

/s/ William A. Watkins, Jr.                 Director
--------------------------------------
         William A. Watkins, Jr.

/s/ Robert W. Hampton                       Director
--------------------------------------
         Robert W. Hampton
6

                                INDEX TO EXHIBITS
EXHIBIT
  NO.                         DESCRIPTION OF EXHIBIT
-------                       ----------------------
4.1     Collegiate Pacific Inc. Stock Option Plan, as amended, including a form
         of option agreement

 5.1     Opinion of Sayles, Lidji & Werbner, P.C.

23.1     Consent of Sayles, Lidji & Werbner, P.C. (included in their opinion
         filed as Exhibit 5.1)

23.2     Consent of Grant Thornton LLP

24.1     Power of Attorney (see signature page of this Registration Statement)