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AAU Junior Olympic Games

Index AAU Junior Olympic Games

The AAU Junior Olympic Games are the pinnacle competitiheld annually by the US Amateur Athletic Union. [1]

79 relations: Acrobatics, Amateur Athletic Union, American football, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ballet, Ballroom dance, Baseball, Basketball, Baton twirling, Beach volleyball, Bodybuilding, Bowling, Charlotte, North Carolina, Cheerleading, Cleveland, Clogging, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Cross country running, Dance, Dancesport, Des Moines, Iowa, Detroit, Diving, Field hockey, Freestyle wrestling, Funk, Golf, Greensboro, North Carolina, Gymnastics, Hampton Roads, Hip-hop dance, Houston, Indoor soccer, Iowa City, Iowa, Ithaca, New York, Jacksonville, Florida, Jazz dance, Judo, Junior roller derby, Karate, Kata, Knoxville, Tennessee, Kumite, Lacrosse, Lawrence, Kansas, Lexington, Kentucky, Lincoln, Nebraska, Memphis, Tennessee, Modern dance, New Orleans, ..., Notre Dame, Indiana, Novelty and fad dances, Okinawan kobudō, Orlando, Florida, Powerlifting, Rochester, Minnesota, Roller in-line hockey, Salsa (dance), San Antonio, San Diego, Santa Clara, California, Skipping rope, Softball, Space Coast, Spokane, Washington, Sport stacking, St. Louis, St. Petersburg, Florida, Swimming (sport), Syracuse, New York, Table tennis, Taekwondo, Tallahassee, Florida, Tap dance, Track and field, United States, Volleyball, Washington, D.C., Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Expand index (29 more) »

Acrobatics

Acrobatics (from Greek ἀκροβατέω akrobateō, "walk on tiptoe, strut") is the performance of extraordinary human feats of balance, agility, and motor coordination.

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Amateur Athletic Union

The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is an amateur sports organization based in the United States.

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American football

American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County.

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Ballet

Ballet is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the 15th century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia.

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Ballroom dance

Ballroom dance is a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world.

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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and fielding.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport played on a rectangular court.

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Baton twirling

Baton twirling is a sport involving the manipulation of a metal rod and the performer's body to a coordinated routine.

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Beach volleyball

Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net.

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Bodybuilding

Bodybuilding is the use of progressive resistance exercise to control and develop one's musculature.

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Bowling

Bowling is a sport or leisure activity in which a player rolls or throws a bowling ball towards a target.

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Charlotte, North Carolina

Charlotte is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Cheerleading

Cheerleading is an activity wherein the participants (referred to as "cheerleaders") cheer for their team as a form of encouragement.

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Cleveland

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the county seat of Cuyahoga County.

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Clogging

Clogging is a type of folk dance in which the dancer's footwear is used percussively by striking the heel, the toe, or both against a floor or each other to create audible rhythms, usually to the downbeat with the heel keeping the rhythm.

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Colorado Springs, Colorado

Colorado Springs is a home rule municipality that is the largest city by area in Colorado as well as the county seat and the most populous municipality of El Paso County, Colorado, United States.

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Cross country running

Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass.

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Dance

Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement.

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Dancesport

Dancesport denotes competitive ballroom dancing, as contrasted to social or exhibition dancing.

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Des Moines, Iowa

Des Moines is the capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Iowa.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

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Diving

Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, usually while performing acrobatics.

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Field hockey

Field hockey is a team game of the hockey family.

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Freestyle wrestling

Freestyle wrestling is a style of amateur wrestling that is practiced throughout the world.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Golf

Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.

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Greensboro, North Carolina

Greensboro (formerly Greensborough) is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a sport that requires balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and endurance.

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Hampton Roads

Hampton Roads is the name of both a body of water in Virginia and the surrounding metropolitan region in Southeastern Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina, United States.

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Hip-hop dance

Hip-hop dance refers to street dance styles primarily performed to hip-hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth most populous city in the United States, with a census-estimated 2017 population of 2.312 million within a land area of.

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Indoor soccer

Indoor soccer, or arena soccer (known internationally as indoor football, minifootball, fast football, floorball or showball), is a game derived from association football adapted for play in a walled indoor arena.

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Iowa City, Iowa

Iowa City is a city in Johnson County, Iowa, United States.

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Ithaca, New York

Ithaca is a city in the Finger Lakes region of New York.

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Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Florida and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States.

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Jazz dance

Jazz dance is the performance dance technique and style that emerged in America in the early twentieth century.

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Judo

was created as a physical, mental and moral pedagogy in Japan, in 1882, by Jigoro Kano (嘉納治五郎).

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Junior roller derby

Junior roller derby is the sport of roller derby, modified for children and adolescents.

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Karate

(Okinawan pronunciation) is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom.

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Kata

, a Japanese word, are detailed choreographed patterns of movements practiced either solo or in pairs.

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Knoxville, Tennessee

Knoxville is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Knox County.

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Kumite

Kumite (組手) literally translated means "grappling hands" and is one of the three main sections of karate training, along with kata and kihon.

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Lacrosse

Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball.

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Lawrence, Kansas

Lawrence is the county seat of Douglas County and sixth largest city in Kansas.

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Lexington, Kentucky

Lexington, consolidated with Fayette County and often denoted as Lexington-Fayette, is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 60th-largest city in the United States.

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Lincoln, Nebraska

Lincoln is the capital of the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Lancaster County.

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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city located along the Mississippi River in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Modern dance

Modern dance is a broad genre of western concert or theatrical dance, primarily arising out of Germany and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.

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Notre Dame, Indiana

Notre Dame is a census-designated place north of South Bend in St. Joseph County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.

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Novelty and fad dances

Fad dances are dances which are characterized by a short burst of popularity, while novelty dances typically have a longer-lasting popularity based on their being characteristically humorous or humor-invoking, as well as the sense of uniqueness which they have.

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Okinawan kobudō

, literally "old martial way of Okinawa", is the weapon systems of Okinawan martial arts.

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Orlando, Florida

Orlando is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Orange County.

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Powerlifting

Powerlifting is a strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: squat, bench press, and deadlift.

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Rochester, Minnesota

Rochester is a city founded in 1854 in the U.S. State of Minnesota and is the county seat of Olmsted County located on the Zumbro River's south fork in Southeast Minnesota.

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Roller in-line hockey

Roller in-line hockey is a team sport played on a wood, asphalt, cement or sport tile surface, in which players use a hockey stick to shoot a hard plastic hockey puck into their opponent's goal to score points.

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Salsa (dance)

Salsa is a popular form of social dance that originated in the Caribbean.

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San Antonio

San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is the seventh most populous city in the United States and the second most populous city in both Texas and the Southern United States.

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San Diego

San Diego (Spanish for 'Saint Didacus') is a major city in California, United States.

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Santa Clara, California

Santa Clara is a city in Santa Clara County, California.

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Skipping rope

A skipping rope (British English) or jump rope (American English) is a tool used in the sport of jump rope where one or more participants jump over a rope swung so that it passes under their feet and over their heads.

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Softball

Softball is a variant of baseball played with a larger ball (11 in. to 12 in. sized ball) on a smaller field.

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Space Coast

The Space Coast is a region in the U.S. state of Florida around the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

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Spokane, Washington

Spokane is a city in the state of Washington in the northwestern United States.

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Sport stacking

Sport stacking (also known as cup stacking or speed stacking) is an individual and team sport that involves stacking 9 or 12 specially designed cups in pre-determined sequences as fast as you can.

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St. Louis

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St. Petersburg, Florida

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Swimming (sport)

Swimming is an individual or team sport that requires the use of ones arms and legs to move the body through water.

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Syracuse, New York

Syracuse is a city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, in the United States.

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Table tennis

Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball back and forth across a table using small bats.

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Taekwondo

Taekwondo (from Korean 태권도, 跆拳道) is a Korean martial art, characterised by its emphasis on head-height kicks, jumping and spinning kicks, and fast kicking techniques.

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Tallahassee, Florida

Tallahassee is the capital of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Tap dance

Tap dance is a form of dance characterized by using the sounds of tap shoes striking the floor as a form of percussion.

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Track and field

Track and field is a sport which includes athletic contests established on the skills of running, jumping, and throwing.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Winston-Salem is a city in and the county seat of Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States. With a 2015 estimated population of 241,218, it is the second largest municipality in the Piedmont Triad region and the 5th-most populous city in North Carolina, and the 89th-most populous city in the United States. Winston-Salem is home to the tallest office building in the region, 100 North Main Street, formerly the Wachovia Building and now known locally as the Wells Fargo Center. Winston-Salem is called the "Twin City" for its dual heritage and "City of the Arts and Innovation" for its dedication to fine arts and theater and technological research. "Camel City" is a reference to the city's historic involvement in the tobacco industry related to locally based R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company's Camel cigarettes. Many locals refer to the city as "Winston" in informal speech. Another nickname, "the Dash," comes from the (-) in the city's name, although technically it is a hyphen, not a dash; this nickname is only used by the local minor league baseball team, the Winston-Salem Dash. In 2012, the city was listed among the 10 best places to retire in the U.S. by CBS MoneyWatch.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAU_Junior_Olympic_Games

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