At the DeLaSalle Charter School this morning, competition was fierce in the gym. Students were competing along with teams in Hungary, Germany, Israel, South Africa, New Zealand, Columbia, and Taiwan.
The event? Sport stacking, a newly-popularized sport that involves stacking pyramids of plastic cups at lightening speed as fast as possible.
According to the SpeedStacks website, the sport actually got its launch on the Johnny Carson Show in 1990. A teacher in Colorado then saw the opportunities for using sport stacking in the classroom, and the movement was born.
The World Sport Stacking Association (WSSA) expected up to 450,000 stackers to participate in the Nov. 15 event. Each participant had to stack against the clock for one half hour.
According to Bob Fox, WSSA Founder and CEO, “Sport stacking promotes hand-eye coordination, fitness, teamwork, speed and lots of fun.” Sport stacking is often combined with other fitness activities.
No world yet if the DeLaSalle stackers helped beat the world record for the most people stacking at multiple locations in one day….
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