AAE has been a U.S. manufacturer of athletic equipment for over 65 years, so we know our stuff. Not only do we offer the highest quality sports equipment and exceptional service, but we also take pride in our innovation of exclusive new and custom products. One thing we’ve learned along the way… a custom product we design to solve one coach’s equipment problem, probably solves the same issue for many coaches. And so a new AAE product is born to become the “new norm”.

Our claim to fame may be the world’s first aluminum rocker hurdle, invented by company founder John Marzucco in 1949 and patented in 1952, but we’ve developed many “firsts” through the decades. In the 1960s, our reputation for designing quality custom equipment spawned the first portable football goal posts for the Philadelphia Eagles’ summer camps. In the 1970s, we introduced more track & field firsts with the hammer-discus cage and skirted competition covers for pole vault & high jump pads. The first rollaway combination football soccer goal for Georgetown University’s rooftop field was one of our gems from the 1980s. Athlete safety was a huge concern in the 1990s, so our indoor weight cage and BallStopper™ safety sports netting were popular AAE originals. Our collaborations with coaches in this millennium have been extremely productive for expanding our product lines: the first Hinged Offset Football Goals; the first Portable Discus Cage with Portable Throwing Platform; the first DONKEY™ Portable Press Box; the first Removable Outfield Wall; the first Hinged Foul Poles and the list goes on.