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.

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

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Students at Katonah Elementary School took part in the second annual World Sport Stacking Association competition to achieve a Guinness world record in cup stacking. The school was just one of many ...

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 ...

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 ...