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The Amateur Athletic Union ( AAU) is an amateur sports organization based in the United States. [1] A multi-sport organization, the AAU is dedicated exclusively to the promotion and development of amateur sports and physical fitness programs. [2] It has more than 700,000 members nationwide, including more than 100,000 volunteers. [3]
USA Wrestling (formerly known as the United States Wrestling Federation and as the United States Wrestling Association) is the organization that currently governs freestyle wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling in the United States. USA Wrestling is also the official representative to the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) and ...
The AAU is one of the largest, non-profit, volunteer sports organizations in the country. As a multi-sport organization, AAU is dedicated exclusively to the promotion and development of amateur sports and physical fitness programs. The AAU philosophy of “Sports for All, Forever” is shared by over 500,000 members and 60,000 volunteers ...
A Miami wrestling team won its first AAU national duals championship, while another Miami team won as well. Also a Broward wrestling coach will wrestle in Bali at the world beach games.
SAMBO is a martial art and combat sport developed and used by the Soviet Red Army in the early 1920s to improve their hand-to-hand combat abilities. The sport is similar in many ways to judo and jiu jitsu but also incorporates different types of wrestling and various self-defence systems.
Freestyle wrestling is a style of wrestling. Along with Greco-Roman, it is one of the two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic Games. High school wrestling and men's collegiate wrestling in the United States are conducted under different rules and termed scholastic and collegiate wrestling. U.S. collegiate women's wrestling is conducted ...
In January 2007, Eastern Michigan University named a gymnasium in his honor as the "Dean L. Rockwell Wrestling Facility." Rockwell was a member of the Phi Sigma Epsilon fraternity while a student at Eastern Michigan, and assisted with the fraternity's reformation as Phi Sigma Phi when most of its chapters merged with Phi Sigma Kappa .
Josiah "Joe" Henson (24 February 1922 – 4 April 2012) was an American freestyle wrestler and a career U.S. Navy officer. In 1952 he won the AAU wrestling championships without losing a single point and was named the tournament's outstanding wrestler. The same year he won an Olympic bronze medal.