Weber State University’s Outdoor Program and Competitive Sports teamed up to hold an annual intramural crate stacking event on Sept. 24 and Sept. 26. Students made their way to the Technical Training Center climbing wall in anticipation of a unique type of physical activity.

Crate stacking is an event where individuals stack and climb milk crates. The goal is to stack as many crates as possible before the tower of crates collapses. Being harnessed to the rock wall, some attendees climbed as high as 20 crates tall.

Unlike past years, both days were competition days, with participants deciding to jump right into things.

No participants in the event had ever heard of crate stacking before.

“I was going through the event page on the calendar, and I saw it on there and signed me and my siblings up,” attendee Sydney Johnson said.

After discovering the event on the Outdoor Program’s Instagram page, participant Amelia Bronnimann earned this year’s highest climb at 24 crates, falling short of the overall record 30.

As strange as crate stacking may appear, events like this are very important in holding the intramural sports program to a standard that Competitive Sports Coordinator Lexi Morrissey thrives for and expects.

“I’m hopeful that within the next 10 years we can get Weber intramurals to run every day of the week with an array of diverse sports that appeal to everyone on campus,” Morrissey said.

Events like crate stacking, which can be perceived as quirky, are just one way that Morrissey tries to give the community a fun and inclusive environment through intramural sports. Students will have the opportunity to attend even more quirky events in the future.