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.

GEORGETOWN TOWNSHIP -- Tanner Pratt stacked the cups 12 high and lifted his hands in the air. They stood tall. Around him, other Bauerwood Elementary School students hurried to build other cup towers ...

Andrew Reveno, 8, practices his cup stacking before heading to the Junior Olympics this week. Oregon Episcopal School students started a cup stacking club this school year and proved themselves fast ...

SAN ANTONIO — Sport stacking has been around since the 1980’s. The goal is to stack plastic cups into a formation as fast as you can. Some fans play at home for fun. Others race the clock at sport ...

FAIRFIELD, Ohio -- To most people, a plastic cup is just a vessel from which to drink, but for Robert Weatherington, plastic cups mean competition. The 17-year-old from Fairfield is part of the U.S.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WVEC) -- Students at Indian Lakes Elementary School in Virginia Beach are building on their fitness thanks to the school’s P.E. Specialist Jimmy Grassano. On Thursday, the school ...

Fifth-grader Luke Mueller high fives Utah's number one sport stacker, Ethan Sumsion, after they raced during a sport stacking event at South Weber Elementary school on Thursday, November 13, 2014.