World record breaking Sport Stacker

World record breaking Sport Stacker

A high school friend of mine sent me this link about a local boy in my old hometown. Steven J. Purugganan, 10, of Longmeadow, became the World Record Breaker in Sports Stacking. What the hell is Sports Stacking – take a look!

According to The Springfield Republican article “Cup-stacker, 10, beats all“:

“”Sport Stacking – it really is an international sport – uses 12 special cups that look like ordinary plastic drinking cups. It is what participants do with them that is extraordinary. Competitors stack and unstack the cups in predetermined sequences at speeds so fast that to blink is to miss a large part of the action.”… When Steven and his brothers, Andrew, 16, and Brian, 12, first saw Sport Stacking on ESPN in 2006, they could not get enough of it. “They taped the event, and watched it over and over again,” said their mother, Vicki Purugganan, yesterday. “They tried using plastic cups we had in the house, but they kept sticking together. So, I finally went out and bought them one official set to share.””

At the World Championship this past month, Steven beat the world’s record. So essentially, Steven started at age 8 as a novice to become a world champion and world record holder in less than two years!

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I'm a Taiwanese-American and was born & raised in Western Massachusetts, went to college in upstate New York, worked in Connecticut, went to grad school in North Carolina and then moved out to the Bay Area in 1999 and have been living here ever since - love the weather and almost everything about the area (except the high cost of housing...)
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