Cup stacking is a new and exciting

brain-based sport that is gaining popularity throughout the nation and

the world. It involves stacking and unstacking 12 specially designed cups

in pre-determined sequences. Athletes are timed as they stack their cups

in pyramid formations and then unstack them to start another sequenced

formation.

Crabapple's physical education

teacher Laura Thompson was introduced to the sport last fall at the Georgia

Association of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance conference. She

says when she read about the sport in the program she was skeptical but

she went to the demonstration and was pleasantly surprised.

"I have to admit that

I was a little bit afraid of what physical education might be coming to

but by the end of the demonstration I was hooked. At that moment I knew

I wanted to come