Distinguished personalities have visited SPA as a chief guests or guest lecturers or emeritus coaches. These include:

Prakash Padukone and Pullera Gopichand (Badminton), Vishwanath Anand (Chess), Mr. Dhanraj Pillai (Hockey), Kapil Deo and Saurav Ganguly (Cricket), Kamlesh Mehta (Table Tennis), Leander Paes (Tennis) etc.

Magssesay awardees R. K. Laxman, Dr. Kiran Bedi, Mr. T. N. Sheshan have addressed the students on the topics related to personality development.

Mr. Suresh Kalmadi, President, Asian Olympic Association and Mr. Vikram Verma, Minister for sports, Government of India, Mr. Prithviraj Chavan, Chief Minister, Maharashtra state have visited SPA and interacted with the players.