industry boarding school camp sports camps adult & family programs team training professional & collegiate training founded 1978 headquarters bradenton florida united states key people chip mccarthy co managing director ; greg phillips co managing director parent img wme website www.imgacademy.com img academy is a boarding school and sport training destination in bradenton florida united states . the boarding school offers an integrated academic and athletic college preparatory experience across eight sports baseball basketball football golf lacrosse soccer tennis and track & field and cross country . img academy offers camp programs on a year round basis serves as a training and competition venue for amateur collegiate and professional teams adults and families and a host site for a variety of events . contents 1 history 2 programs 2.1 bollettieri tennis 2.2 american football 2.3 soccer 2.4 baseball 2.5 basketball 2.6 golf 2.7 lacrosse 2.8 track & field and cross country 3 notable alumni 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit nick bollettieri founded the nick bollettieri tennis academy in 1978 . sports and entertainment company img purchased the academy in 1987 . 1 img acquired the youth division of the david leadbetter golf academy in 1993 and added programs for soccer and baseball in 1994 . hockey and basketball programs were added in 2000 and 2001 respectively and by 2002 the img campus had expanded to 190 acres 0.77 km2 . 2 img academy suspended its hockey program in 2003 . citation needed football was added in 2010 3 as well as lacrosse . 4 track & field and cross country was added in 2013 . 5 img academy currently sits on 450 acres 1.8 km2 of land and in 2011 img paid 7.5 million for an additional 110 acres 0.45 km2 adjacent to the current campus for future expansion . 1 in 2014 img purchased an additional 24 acres 0.097 km2 . the land borders img s west campus where the sports performance academy is undergoing a 198 million expansion . 6 the img pendleton school was founded in 1999 as a co educational college preparatory school for athletic students . in 2012 the school changed its name to img academy . 7 it delivers both academics and athletics . 8 programs edit bollettieri tennis edit the bollettieri tennis program offers year round tennis camps ranging from one to five weeks in length and is led by director rohan goetzke . 9 the campus has 35 outdoor hard courts 5 indoor hard courts and 16 green clay courts . 10 in 1987 32 academy students or former students were in the wimbledon draw and 27 were in the u.s. open . the famous students included andre agassi monica seles jim courier kei nishikori anna kournikova serena williams and maria sharapova . american football edit img announced the john madden football academy in march 2010 and held its first camp from june 4 6 2010 . the football program offers a residency program and year round camps ranging from three days to five weeks in length and was formerly led by former nfl quarterback chris weinke . 11 the academy fielded a high school football team for the first time in 2013 . 12 in 2013 maxpreps called img academy the nation s top high school football facility . 13 the varsity team is now led by head coach kevin wright who was named head coach in spring 2015 after weinke accepted a position as quarterbacks coach with the los angeles rams . 14 wright guided the program to its first undefeated regular season 9 0 in 2015 . 15 soccer edit img academy offers an academy soccer program and year round soccer camps . img academy is home to u.s. soccer s full time residency program for the united states u 16 and u 17 men s national teams . started in 1999 it has become integral in developing the united states top youth soccer prospects . the original idea of the residency program was to give elite players the opportunity to train in a professional environment as most mls clubs did not have a substantial youth academy system in place prior to 2009 . the bradenton academy has grown from an initial 20 players to 30 in 2002 and then to 40 in 2003 . the program is now split into a u 16 squad and a u 17 squad . a typical day for the student athlete at bradenton consists of academic classes in the morning followed by sports training in the afternoon . students at the academy take accelerated courses and graduate high school a year early making the players who do not turn pro immediately some of the most heavily recruited prospects in college soccer . the academy can trace its roots back to project 2010 which highlighted ways u.s. soccer could make the senior men s national team a legitimate threat to win the world cup by the end of the decade . two programs that were born from project 2010 were generation adidas previously called project 40 and the bradenton academy . the academy was started in january 1999 with backing of img and nike . baseball edit img academy has an academy baseball program and year round camps in addition to summer wood bat leagues . 16 basketball edit img academy has an academy basketball program and year round camps . img academy s post graduate program played in the 2016 national prep championship in new haven connecticut . among the teams were brewster academy dme academy elev 8 sports institute fork union military academy hargrave military academy img academy northfield mount hermon school and more . 17 golf edit img academy has an academy golf program and offers summer camps . the students and camp participants play on two very typical florida golf courses in sara bay country club and img academy golf club . both are fairly well kept and offer a test of the students game . img s practice facilities include a big range which is open to golf students most of the day and a little range which is open to everyone 24 7 . the coaches at img are well trained and help in any way they can . lacrosse edit img academy has an academy lacrosse program and year round camps . img academy launched a high school team in 2012 . prior to that img academy hosted their first full time lacrosse student athlete matthew xirinachs starting in september 2010 . xirinachs went on to join the drexel men s lacrosse team in the fall of 2011 . 18 track & field and cross country edit img academy has an academy track & field and cross country program and year round camps . 19 notable alumni edit main article list of img academy alumni since opening in 1978 img academy has trained hundreds of olympic and professional athletes including those in the nba nfl mlb mls atp wta pga tour and lpga tour . see also edit david leadbetter my personal golf trainer wii title references edit a b new img brand to unify bradenton campus bradenton herald . bradenton.com . 2012 08 19 . retrieved 2015 12 15 . 1 archived january 25 2014 at the wayback machine . stephen spiewak 2010 03 18 . john madden img academies launch img madden football academy . maxpreps.com . retrieved 2015 12 15 . img lacrosse academy to begin offering instruction in march . inside lacrosse . 2013 11 05 . retrieved 2015 12 15 . img academy launches track & field and cross country program . sports techie . 2013 05 20 . retrieved 2015 12 15 . https web.archive.org web 20140827104242 http www.bradenton.com 2014 07 09 5245120 img acquires manatee fruit land.html rh 1 . archived from the original on august 27 2014 . retrieved june 16 2014 . missing or empty title help pendleton school becomes img academy . fhsaa.org . retrieved 2015 12 15 . why . img academy . 2015 05 22 . retrieved 2015 12 15 . banking giant bnp paribas and french open sign five year extension this week in tennis business with justin cohen . world tennis magazine . 2012 05 30 . retrieved 2015 12 15 . https web.archive.org web 20120823142140 http www.imgacademies.com nick bollettieri tennis academy tennis department sports facilities . archived from the original on august 23 2012 . retrieved november 8 2012 . missing or empty title help img academies launches john madden football academy tribunedigital orlandosentinel . articles.orlandosentinel.com . 2010 03 19 . retrieved 2015 12 15 . 2 archived august 31 2012 at the wayback machine . stephen spiewak 2013 10 03 . behind the scenes photos from img academy . maxpreps.com . retrieved 2015 12 15 . img academy names steve walsh as director of football and kevin wright as coach . usa today high school sports . retrieved 2016 02 17 . img academy football top performers . bradenton . retrieved 2016 02 17 . 3 archived december 11 2012 at the wayback machine . national prep championship field announced . new englang recruiting report . retrieved 29 february 2016 . img academy to field first lacrosse team . inside lacrosse . 2012 07 23 . retrieved 2015 12 15 . img academy track and field program running training . imgacademy.com . retrieved 2015 12 15 . external links edit img academy official site coordinates 27 26 28 n 82 36 07 w 27.441 n 82.602 w 27.441 ; 82.602 retrieved from https 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