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Press Releases

• Start the Year Off with $2,000 or More for Talking About Sports - January 10, 2012
• WAKA Kickball Listed on 2011 Inc. 5000 as one of the Fastest Growing Private U.S. Companies for Second Year in a Row - December 19, 2011
• “Other Shot Callers” Crowned as World Kickball Champion  during the Annual World Kickball Championship® Weekend - October 13, 2011
• Nation’s Best Excited To Kick, Run And Catch  For Coveted Title of World Kickball Champion During the 14^th Annual World Kickball Championship® Weekend - October 5, 2011
• World Adult Kickball Association Awards First Franchise To New Orleans Native Sean Gaubert - June 8, 2011
• "World Adult Kickball Association Launches Franchise Operation" Media Advisory Release - March 29, 2011
• "WAKA Kickball ... Set to Begin Offering Franchises" Media Advisory Release - September 23, 2010
• "World's Longest Kickball Marathon" Media Advisory Release - April 2, 2010
• 12th Annual Founders Cup® World Kickball Championship® Release – August 26, 2009

Articles

Kickball, the game you dominated in the fourth grade (actual events may not be exactly as you remember them), is on the rise. Fun fact: There are adult kickball leagues in 35 states in the U.S., as well as England and yes, Iraq. Their version of the Lombardi Trophy, called the Founders Cup, will be on the line on Saturday at the 14th Annual World Kickball Championship in Las Vegas, the biggest event in the sport.

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This weekend, most sports fans will be focused on football games, Major League Baseball playoffs and the status of the upcoming NBA season.

However, for a small but faithful cadre of kickball fans, their attention will be in Las Vegas, the site of the 14th Annual World Kickball Championship Founders Cup, the biggest event in that burgeoning sport.

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As fun as it is to play kickball, it might be even more fun to name the teams. Among the top teams in the World Adult Kickball Association's Raleigh summer leagues are What Willis Was Talking About, Those Guys and Nacho and the Jew.

In 1998, four friends in the Washington, D.C., area were looking for a social activity that didn't involve sitting in a dimly lit bar on a sunny day--but also wasn't as mind-numbing and expensive as playing 18 holes of golf. Their solution? Kickball, the ubiquitous playground sport that most people left behind with their lunchbox.

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The World Adult Kickball Association (WAKA) recently began franchising in the United States. The program will leverage the organization’s 13 years of success bringing fun and happiness to hundreds of thousands of kickball players across the country and will offer one of the most exciting, affordable, high “fun” franchises in the marketplace.

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The World Adult Kickball Association (WAKA) awarded their first franchise in New Orleans. The business was started as a way for others to meet new people and have fun; and what better way than a game of kickball?

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There are those people - who shall remain nameless - that insist their preferred co-rec sport is the best. So, we decided to have a little play-off competition between two of Northern Virginia's biggest and most popular adult co-rec leagues: WAKA Kickball, say hello to Fairfax Adult Softball.

Remember playing kickball when you were a kid?  Well, it’s back in a big way!  Adult kickball leagues are popping up all over the nation, thanks to the World Adult Kickball Association (WAKA), making it easy to re-live your childhood and get fit at the same time!

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The kickball-for-adults trend is still going strong.

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In most sports, screaming at your opponent after pegging them with the ball might get you in some trouble with the officials - or at least the other team. Then again, most sports don't have one of the teams show up in costume evry week. That's because most sports aren't kickball.