{"id":21675,"date":"2019-04-26T16:22:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T21:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/?p=21675"},"modified":"2019-04-26T16:29:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T21:29:07","slug":"this-7-time-air-hockey-world-champ-is-also-a-baylor-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2019\/04\/this-7-time-air-hockey-world-champ-is-also-a-baylor-bear\/","title":{"rendered":"This 7-time air hockey world champ is also a Baylor Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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You probably know Baylor student-athletes are currently the reigning national champions in both women’s basketball<\/a> and acrobatics & tumbling<\/a>. You might know that Baylor also has the nation’s top collegiate orchestra<\/a>, and that Baylor students are among the top collegiate trumpeters in the nation<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

But did you know that Baylor is also home to one of the world’s best air hockey players<\/a> — perhaps one of the best in the sport’s history?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In fact, at age 20, Colin Cummings has already won seven world championships — with another title opportunity coming up this summer.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Cummings first picked up the puck when he moved to Texas at age 10 and began playing with his neighbors, who were heavily involved in the sport. Fast-forward two years, and Cummings had already claimed the title of No. 1 junior air-hockey player in the world — all without even owning an air-hockey table.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

At age 16, Cummings became the youngest person ever to become a world air hockey champion. His rise to the top came quickly, as he won back-to-back world championships that year. Despite having only a few years of practice, he began consistently beating players with decades of experience, faking out his opponents while using extreme force to hit the puck. (We’re not kidding; he slams the puck around at 60 m.p.h.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The final point of Cummings’ first championship win earned him a spot on SportsCenter’s “Top 10 Plays” in 2015<\/a>, and both CNN<\/a> and the Houston Chronicle<\/a><\/em> featured him a year later.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Here’s what world-champion-level air hockey looks like<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n