About
From passion to profession · since 2015.
We are SAS-CCE · the Sports Academy School Center of Continuing Education. Since 2015 we've delivered the SAS Coaching Diploma: internationally accredited fitness, rehab and sports coaching credentials across Lebanon, the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
The story
Built by practising coaches, doctors and Olympians.
SAS-CCE was founded in 2015 inside the Sports Academy School group with one question: why is it possible to coach without a single hour of supervised practice? Every cohort of the SAS Coaching Diploma since has answered it the same way · real instructors, real cases, real hours on the floor. No off-the-shelf curricula, no influencer-led shortcuts.
Vision
A generation of sports professionals · coaches, trainers, rehab specialists · who shape the future of athletics in MENA and have a credentialed career path to build on.
Mission
Deliver internationally accredited, locally attested coaching diplomas that translate directly into employment with the region's leading fitness operators.
Three markets, one academy
Lebanon · EREPS EQF Level 4 Personal Trainer + EQF-aligned specialist diplomas. UAE / Dubai · NASM CPT with a KHDA-attested diploma; the dual-credential flagship for the Gulf. Saudi Arabia · SAS × Enhance Academy partnership where top performers get directly recruited by Enhance Fitness.
Hosted at Performance First
Lebanon practicals run at Performance First, our group's training facility in Beirut. Coaches teach where they actually work · same floor, same equipment, real clients walking through.
Numbers
Eleven years. Real graduates.
2015
First cohort enrolled
10,000+
Graduates across 11 years
3
Markets · Lebanon, UAE, KSA
9
Diploma tracks across the catalog
A network of working professionals teaches our diplomas: surgeons, DPTs, Olympic coaches, national champions, and specialty instructors who lead the floor with us. The core faculty is the start, not the full bench.