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 ...

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 ...

FAIRBANKS — The steady whir of spinning jump ropes filled the Patty Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks on Saturday, punctuated by rapid clicks as they bounced off the floor. The buzz was ...

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 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A group called Confident Girl Mentoring held its Jump 4 Confidence jump rope competition on Saturday on Bailey Avenue. The competition was free for all boys and girls between the ages ...

Thirty-six members of the Heartbeats Jump Rope Team traveled to the Gulf of Mexico to compete in the 2009 U.S. National Jump Rope Championship held June 25-28 at the Galveston Island Convention Center ...

On an average Wednesday, Thursday or Friday night year-round, the members of the precision and competition Hoppin’ Hawks Jump Rope Club teams can be found at Prospect Mill Elementary School in Bel Air ...

STEWARTVILLE — They say a flapping butterfly can affect the weather in another part of the globe. Imagine the impact of 400 elementary students all jumping rope on the same day. Central Intermediate ...

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 ...

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 ...