Carl Sagapolutele Floor

Carl Floor

Player information
Full name	Carl J. Sagapolutele Floor Sr.
birthday
place of birth
citizenship	United States
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-	American Samoa

Carl J. Sagapolutele Floor Sr. is an American-Samoan beach handball coach and sports official.

Carl Floor comes from an extremely sporty family that has already produced some successful and professional athletes. His son CJ Floor was a successful wrestler and had qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London , but was not nominated because of disputes with the American-Samoan Federation. The twin daughters Danielle and Stephanie Floor also work as wrestlers, but have so far celebrated even greater success as beach handball players.

Floor was a wrestling coach at Samoana High School in Utulei . Here he trained his son, among other things, and brought him almost to the Olympic Games. After tension with the national federation, he was fired from the position and his son was not nominated for the Olympics. Now Floor turned to new goals. He began building the American Samoa Handball Association , which was initially dedicated to beach handball. Floor became both president of the association and the coach of all the national teams he built from scratch. Since October 2014, he has also been elected to the Presidium of the Oceanic Handball Federation, initially as treasurer and since July 2019 as Vice-President.

The first successes quickly emerged. At the Oceanic U-17 Championships in 2017, the girls' team won the title against the much higher rated Australians. Linked to this was the qualification for the Beach Handball Junior World Championships 2017 in Flic en Flac on Mauritius in the same year . It was also the qualifying tournament for the 2018 Youth Olympic Games . American Samoa was able to beat Australia again in the preliminary round, on the one hand moving into the main round and on the other hand qualifying for the Youth Olympic Games. In the main round they lost all five games, but then won both games against Australia and hosts in the games for places 12 to 14 and finished the tournament as 12th team. At the youth games in Buenos Aires , the team improved over the course of the tournament, but was only able to beat Mauritius again and finish eleventh in the last game, the placement game for positions eleven and twelve. All three competitions were held for the first time.

The senior national team first took part in the Beach Handball Championships of Oceania in 2018 . As in the following year, they took place in Glenelg in the greater Adelaide area of Australia. In 2018 there was only one women's team that finished second behind Australia but was able to leave New Zealand behind. A year later, four teams competed, again American Samoa only had to admit defeat Australia. The team also came second in the open Australian championships for club teams that were held in parallel. In addition, a men's team was formed for the first time, which reached fourth place out of five teams on its first international assignment.

Floor is also involved beyond that, for example as Vice President of the American Samoan Weightlifting Federation .

Single receipts

1. ↑ AMERICAN SAMOA'S CJ FLOOR QUALIFIES FOR SUMMER OLYMPICS IN LONDON (English)
2. ↑ Floor's Olympic dreams take beating (English)
3. ↑ Olympic wrestling hopeful filing suit; ASWA stands firm (English)
4. ↑ American Samoa calls all handball players (English)
5. ↑ American Samoa on the website of the World Handball Federation (English)
6. ↑ Ricardo Blas elected as President of the Oceania Continent Handball Federation (English)
7. ↑ Beach Handball - Oceania Qualifiers & Aust Champs 2019
8. ^ American Samoan Weightlifting Federation Elections