Local stackers excel at World Sport Stacking Championships

Several Auburn competitors posted world records at the World Sport Stacking Association Championships April 6-7 in Orlando, Fla. The event is the pinnacle for the international competitors vying for the fastest times stacking and unstacking plastic cups in various patterns. The event features individual, doubles and team competitions. Competing for Team USA, Dick Scobee Elementary fifth-grader Gabby Rivera, the world record holder in the 9-10 age division, finished second in the 11-12 female full-cycle competition with a 7.609-second time. She also was fifth in the 3-6-3 stack event with a time of 2.742 and was eighth in the 3-3-3 stack with a 3.458 clocking.

April 17, 2013 7:16 pm

Several Auburn competitors posted world records at the World Sport Stacking Association Championships April 6-7 in Orlando, Fla.

The event is the pinnacle for international competitors vying for the fastest times stacking and unstacking plastic cups in various patterns. The event features individual, doubles and team competitions.

Competing for Team USA was Dick Scobee Elementary fifth-grader Gabby Rivera. The world record holder in the 9-10 age division, Rivera finished second in the 11-12 female full-cycle competition with a 7.609-second time. She also was fifth in the 3-6-3 stack event with a time of 2.742 and eighth in the 3-3-3 stack, with a 3.458 clocking.

Rivera was fifth in the 12U doubles stack with a time of 12.789.

Jon Ansotigue, a physical education teacher at Evergreen Heights Elementary who organizes local sport stacking events, made the most of his first time competing in the sport. He set a world record in the 3-6-3 team-timed relay.

Ansotigue also was first in the 3-3-3, second in the 3-6-3 and first in the cycle events for his age division.

Joshua Kutz took a pair of first-place finishes, grabbing gold in the head-to-head

3-6-3 and cycle relay competitions. He also finished fourth in the 11-12 male team-timed 3-6-3 relay with a time of 20.146 time. He was sixth in the cycle with an 8.221.

Ezekial McDowell was fourth in the 15-16 male 3-6-3 team-timed relay with a 16.835, and sixth individually in the 3-6-3 with a 2.499.

Daniel Kutz was first in the 35-and-older, team-timed 3-6-3 relay with a 22.752. Kutz also finished fourth in the doubles competition with a 13.733. Individually, he was fourth in the 3-3-3 with a 3.171, seventh in the 3-6-3 with a 3.936 and sixth in the cycle with a 12.329.