A US-based Filipino child has won this year’s WSSA World Sport Stacking Championships held earlier this month in Denver, Colorado. The new champ also posted new records for two events.
In an interview on ABS-CBN’s morning show “Umagang Kay Ganda,” Marivic Purugganan, the mother of 10-year-old Steven Purugganan of Longmeadow, Massachussetts, said her son earned the title of 2008 WSSA World Sport Stacking Champion during the championships held from April 5-6.
The child also posted a record of 1.86 seconds for the Individual 3-3-3 Stack Division and 6.21 seconds for the Individual Cycle Stack Division, topping his previous record of 6.50 seconds.
According to the World Sport Stacking Association, sport stacking is an international, individual and team sport where participants stack up and stack down 12 specially designed cups in pre-determined sequences in tremendous speed.
The competitors, generally aged 6-17, compete individually, on teams or in pairs, called “Doubles,” against the clock for the fastest time or on relay teams in head-to-head competitions.
Sport stacking, originally called “Cup Stacking,” began in the early 1980s, but it wasn’t until 1995 the sport caught the attention of Colorado PE Teacher Bob Fox, who held the state’s first Sport Stacking Tournament at his elementary school.
The sport continued to develop throughout Colorado, and the tradition of an annual state tournament began in 1997.
The sport soon extended to other states, and a regional tournament in 2002 attracted hundreds of stackers from Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma and Florida.
Sport stacking is now practiced in all 50 states and has caused great interest in countries all over the world.
The WSSA has sanctioned World Sport Stacking Championships for the past six years.
source: ABS-CBNNEWS.com
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