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A.A.U.

American  
Or AAU

abbreviation

  1. Amateur Athletic Union.


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He also won 17 A.A.U. championships in indoor and outdoor vaulting competitions, and United States decathlon championships in 1951, 1954 and 1955.

From New York Times

He also pounced on an opportunity when Nico Harrison, a marketing executive at Nike, set aside a few dollars for Udoka to launch an A.A.U. team, Memory said.

From New York Times

At the time, A.A.U. basketball was known as a breeding ground for well-funded street-ball games.

From New York Times

By then, Williamson, a former A.A.U. teammate, had long ago become a national dunking sensation.

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When Ben Perkins, Grimes’s former A.A.U. coach and longtime trainer, saw the video making the rounds on social media, he gave Grimes a hard time.

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