The sound of plastic cups clicking together circled the globe Thursday and could be heard loud and clear at Roncalli Middle School in the afternoon. It was the second annual World Sport Stacking ...

Editor’s note: This segment was rebroadcast on Sept. 30, 2025. Click here for that audio. In the early 2000s, thousands of U.S. schools had their students race the clock to stack cups in gym class.

RIVERTON, Utah - Hundreds of elementary school kids joined thousands around the world in an attempt to break a world record. Rosamond Elementary students are taking part in the World Speed Stacker ...

If you know what Cup Stacking is, you're probably a parent or a kid who graduated recently. Speed stacks have been around for more than 18 years, but it's blowing up in a big way. Not only has sport ...

Cup stacking event aims for 600,000 participants; current record is 555,932. This sport requires speed, focus — and a lot of cups. Students at Cooper City Elementary stepped up to the challenge on ...

Cup stacking sounds like something you’d do at the kitchen sink, not in, say, a school gym. But, on certain days, Karen Shute’s physical education class at M.E. Pearson Elementary School in Kansas ...

Sampson Elementary teacher Charlotte French prefers the nontraditional approach to teaching physical education, so when she first saw a little girl stacking plastic cups in a fury at a table while at ...

It was lunchtime at the first Vermont Family StackFest competition at Camels Hump Middle School in Richmond. A crowd of kids and adults were gathered in the cafeteria, munching on hot dogs and baked ...

EDWARDS ” David Reilly had one word to describe how it feels to be world champion. “Happy,” David said. On April 15, the Edwards 5-year-old won his age division for the 3-6-3 stack in the ESPN World ...