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  XXXXXXXX
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  0001817358
  Academy Sports & Outdoors, Inc.
  001-39589
  1800 NORTH MASON ROAD
  KATY
  TX
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  (281) 646-5200
  Johnson Samuel J
  Officer
  Common
  Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC
  900 Salem St
  Smithfield
  RI
  02917
  40531
  2027776.93
  74534794
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  /s/Wade Moss, as a duly authorized representative of Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC, as attorney-in-fact for  Samuel Johnson