Category: Sports/Fitness

Shipments of wrist-worn wearables, inclusive of smartwatches, basic watches, and wrist bands, reached 34.2 million units, up 28.8 percent year over year during the second quarter of 2019 (2Q19), according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. The top 5 companies – Xiaomi, Apple, Huawei, Fitbit, and Samsung – collectively captured 65.7 percent of the market, an almost 12-point gain from last year.

Ballogy Inc., the software company helping youth and amateur athletes prepare for their sports, announced they are teaming with Texas Top 100 (TT100), a leading NCAA-certified recruiting and rankings service for Texas high school players.

True Diamond Science announced the formation of its Advisory Panel with former major leaguers Mark McGwire, Edgar Renteria, Eric Byrnes and seven others as founding members. The division of True Sports, Inc. aims to disrupt the youth baseball industry with its bat fitting process and wide range of sizing options.

Self Esteem Brands, the parent company of Anytime Fitness, has purchased The Bar Method – a popular, low-impact fitness franchise with 123 studios across 30 states and Canada.

Celsius Holdings Inc., maker of the leading global fitness drink based in Boca Raton, FL, plans to acquire Func Food, a Finnish corporation. Func Food makes beverages, protein bars, supplements and superfoods under the brands Celsius, FAST Sports Nutrition, CocoVi and FitFarm.

Peloton Interactive Inc, the Indoor cycling startup, is seeking raise as much as $1.16 billion in its IPO, according to an updated filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.

As around the country, more than 50,000 of their lives will be impacted by the work of the Outdoors Tomorrow Foundation (OTF), an organization that exists “to teach outdoor education and to promote conservation of wildlife worldwide.”

USA Football, the sport’s national governing body, and QB Collective, a collection of innovative NFL coaches, football skill experts and icons leading the only pro-style development pipeline for high school quarterbacks, announced a new partnership to support smarter play.

Controversial NFL star Antonio Brown has signed an endorsement deal with Xenith Shadow, the helmet company has announced.

BSN Sports, a division of Varsity Brands, announced that Nancy Lieberman – basketball Hall of Famer, BIG3 Head Coach of Power, 2018 BIG 3 Champion and Coach of Year – has entered into a partnership with BSN Sports to help elevate girls’ sports by providing curated coaching resources, content and support.

Life Fitness announced that Dan Wille will transition from chief commercial officer to the position of vice president of global marketing and product development, and Tim McCarthy and Frank van de Ven will both return to Life Fitness to assume the roles as vice president of sales, Americas and vice president of sales, international, respectively.