Myrtle Beach to host AAU youth event over Memorial Day weekend 2010

Monique Newton - mnewton@thesunnews.com

A new sporting event is coming to Myrtle Beach in 2010 that will draw 3,000 to 4,000 youth athletes and 6,000 to 12,000 spectators, officials from the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce and the Amateur Athletic Union of the USA, Inc., announced today.

The four-day AAU East Coast Summer Sports Games will be held over the Memorial Day weekend and are open to children under the age of 18 to compete in boys' basketball, girls' basketball, tae kwon do, judo, wrestling, beach wrestling, golf, baseball and track and field, said Roy Edmondson, sports sales manager for the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce.

"It's an event open to all, but we figure the draw will be along the East Coast, from Florida to Massachusetts, and as far out as Tennessee,' he said.
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AAU President Bobby Dodd declined to comment on the event because there is a press conference scheduled for Sept. 23.

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