AAU Volleyball Wins SportsTravel: Best Amateur Sport Event Award

11/13/2019


The 46th AAU Junior National Volleyball Championships were awarded SportTravel Magazine's 2019 Best Amateur Sport event during the TEAMS '19 Conference & Expo.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (Nov. 13, 2019) - The 46th AAU Junior National Volleyball Championships were awarded SportTravel Magazine's 2019 Best Amateur Sport event during the TEAMS '19 Conference & Expo.

SportsTravel announced the winners of the 2019 SportsTravel Awards at a luncheon during the TEAMS ’19 Conference & Expo in Anaheim the afternoon of Tuesday, November 11. 
 
TEAMS: Travel, Events And Management in Sports, is the world’s largest gathering of event organizers and travel planners from the sports industry. Held at the Anaheim Convention Center, the awards ceremony was emceed by 12 time Olympian Dara Torres. The National Congress of State Games also announced the winners of its Athlete of the Year awards during the gala.

“We are truly honored to accept this award on behalf of the nearly 120,000 people who travel to Central Florida annually for this event,” said Dr. Roger J. Goudy, President/CEO of the AAU. “The relationships we have built throughout Central Florida, including Visit Orlando and Walt Disney World Resort, make the AAU Junior National Volleyball Championships a once-in-a-lifetime experience for all our athletes and their families."

The award is the eighth award AAU volleyball has garnered in the last three years including:
Connect Sports Best Amateur Sporting Event, Sports Events Magazine's Sports Event Planners to Watch, the National Association of Sports Commissions Sports Event Organizer of the Year and most recently Sports Destination Management's Champions of Economic Impact.

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