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 ...

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.

Few people in the world can stack cups as fast as a team of five girls from Gold Canyon Elementary School in the Apache Junction Unified School District. The students proved it May 8 at the World Cup ...

Cup stacking teen heads to Junior Olympics Joey Cooksey, 16, demonstrates her cup stacking skills at Saturday Market in downtown Portland. She's trying to raise $1500 to pay for her trip to the Junior ...

A new cup-stacking record was set May 24 at ReedsRoadElementary School. “The school record was set in 2010 by Rhainyl Custodia at 3.64 seconds,” said physical education teacher Jennifer Sawhill. “His ...

Clack-clack-clack-clack. Like the hoof beats of a thousand baby Clydesdales. This is cup stacking, the deceptively simple task of building and taking down pyramids of plastic cups. Fast. How fast? All ...