Photo Gallery: Sandel Elementary Students Dubbed Reading Champions

Students at Sandel Elementary School are Reading World Champions with a record of more than 4,000 books read in six weeks. 

Teachers at the school created the Reading World Series last year to motivate students to read books for enjoyment. The theme was inspired by the Gamecocks baseball team winning the World Series. Last year, the students read around 3,000 books.

When the Gamecocks won the World Series again this year, the challenge was on for students at Sandel Elementary. They broke last year's record by more than 1,000 books, reading exactly 4,114 books. 

To celebrate, Cocky and two Gamecocks baseball players came to the school Friday to hand out awards to students in the three classes that read the most books.