Chelmsford School Sport Partnership in Essex held their first sport stacking competition on Monday 22nd May 2006. 260 students from 12 schools competed to find out who were the fastest stackers in the partnership.

Martin Eyles (PDM) and his colleague Sarah Robson, have helped to introduce Sport Stacking into their partnership of schools and many of the students are already producing fantastic times!
When they invited their schools to the competition they got an enthusiastic response, many of the schools have their own Sport Stacking Clubs and this was the first opportunity for the students involved to compete in competition.

Although Sport Stacking is a recent addition to the partnership they have already been represented at the highest level.

Hanna Loveday a student from Chelmsford was selected for the Great Britain Team and competed at this year’s World Sport Stacking Championships which were held in the U.S.A. Hanna was so keen to compete she interrupted a family holiday to travel to Denver, Colorado, and was rewarded when her relay team in the 11 & under age group took silver in their division! Well done Hanna!

Speed Stacks helped to run the event which included the Individual 3-3-3 Stack, Individual 3-6-3 Stack & Timed 3-6-3 Team Relay.

Winners - 3-3-3 Stack
The events were very close, top honours for the 3-3-3 Stack went to:

3rd Lauren Le Surf in a time of 3.58

2nd Ellen D’soula in a time of 3.34

1st Hanna Loveday in a time of 3.29

Joint 3rd Harrison May & Ellen Battize in a time of 4.09

2nd Hanna Loveday in a time of 4.06

1st Ben with a time of 3.38

Winners - Timed 3-6-3 Relay
All the schools were then represented in the final event which was the Timed 3-6-3 Relay. This caused a lot of excitement as the 12 teams were lined up side by side and completed their runs at the same time!

The top three teams in the Timed Relay were:

3rd Perryfields School in a time of 30.96

2nd Moulsham School in a time of 30.21

1st Tyrells School in a time of 27.53

Awards
Medals were awarded for 1 st, 2 nd and 3 rd places in both individual 3-3-3 & 3-6-3 Stacks.

Medals were also awarded to the top three teams in the Timed 3-6-3 Relay.

In addition, the fastest school team in the timed 3-6-3 Relay “Tyrells School” were also awarded the Chelmsford School Sport Partnership Cup and have become it’s first holders. The school will keep the cup until the next partnership competition where I’m sure the other schools will be trying even harder to take it from them….

Note: Speed Stacks are the only cups allowed in competitions as set out in the rules of the WSSA (World Sport Stacking Association).

Enthusiastic Stackers being timed