More than 1,200 student athletes from all around the world are in Colorado Springs this week for the World Jump Rope Championships. The athletes are competing in two styles of jumping or skipping rope ...

COLORADO SPRINGS — More than 1,200 student athletes from all around the world are in Colorado Springs this week for the World Jump Rope Championships. "Not only this year and the economic impact to ...

Sioux Falls will be host to the American Jump Rope Federation’s National Championship event next year. Members of the federation (AMJRF) recently announced that Augustana University will welcome more ...

Jumping rope is much more than a playground pastime. Just ask Molly Metz, a five-time jump rope world champion, who has done roughly 1,400 unbroken double-unders (that's when you turn the rope ...

For an Ohio State first-year in physics, Tori Boggs knows a lot about jumping rope. Boggs is a nine-time world rope skipping champion and a two-time world record holder, the current captain of both ...

The Cary YMCA Superskippers were named National Jump Rope Champions after skipping ahead of over 50 teams in the 2012 USA Jump Rope National Championships in Long Beach, Calif. The Cary YMCA ...

A new club hopes to get kids jumping off the couch and into the ropes. Anthonette Blake-Gonzalez, originally from south Florida, has been jumping rope competitively for 16 years. The 32-year-old ...

A total of eight students at Vilonia Primary School were top finalists in the school’s “Jump Rope for Heart” competition on Friday. Second grader Rhett Matkin was the winner of the competition and ...

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In a room fit for racquetball, Ashtian Horton practices his jump rope routine - his half ponytail bouncing up and down. Horton was introduced to jump roping at an early age and quickly fell in love ...

Perched on the gym bleachers, Taryn Marriott bounces her knees up and down in a nervous trot, her eyes wide with fear. “I just want to get a medal,” she says. The 8-year-old is bean-sprout thin and ...