- The Amateur Athletic Union, widely known as the AAU, was formed in United States. It helps to get players noticed and direct them toward a good college or into the right environment in their community. The summit AAU events are the annual AAU Junior Olympic Games. Until the 1970s it was the recognized governing body for many prominent sports in the United States, such as swimming and track and field, but it gave up its jurisdiction with the decline of amateurism.
AAU dance event categories
The AAU includes the following sports among its events at AAU Junior Olympic Games: Cheerleading, Dance/Drill Team. Salsa, DanceSport, and Clogging categories may feature their independent AAU-sanctioned events.
In the past, AAU olympics included Aerobic dance and Sport Dance categories.
The AAU defines an amateur athlete as “one who engages in sport for pleasure.
The AAU administers the AAU/USA Junior Olympics, an annual nationwide athletic program open to all girls and boys between the ages of 8 and 18.
Each year the AAU gives physical fitness tests to millions of U.S. students between 6 and 17 years of age, in order to develop a fitness profile of American youth.
Although almost all athletic structures not organized as professional ventures came to embrace amateurism as policy, athletes often subverted the code, forcing officials to constantly revise standards.
As evidenced by the return of Thorpe’s medals in 1982, amateurism by the 1990s was a concept of diminished importance and one more of technical than moral distinction.
The major organizations involved in the supervision of amateurathletics in the United States are the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), responsible for college and university sports, and the AmateurAthleticUnion (AAU), responsible for most other areas of amateur competition.
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