Dannible & McKee wins back-to-back kickball championship at CNY CPA tournament

Dannible & McKee, LLP backed up its Syracuse Sports Association title by taking home the championship at the 2026 CNY CPA Kickball Tournament presented by Champions for Life, then framed the run with a simple message: “Back-to-back and we’re not stopping now!”

No final score was included in the post, but the wording left no doubt about the result. The firm did not treat the win like a one-off office outing either. In another Facebook result, the D&M team said it had “just won the Syracuse Sports Association (SSA) Kickball Leagues Tournament,” which shows the title run stretched across more than one competition and points to a group that has stayed organized enough to keep winning.

That is the real story in recreational kickball. One title can come from a hot night. Two in a row usually mean a roster that knows its roles, keeps showing up, and handles the bracket better than the other teams do. In a setting built around work schedules, casual participation, and shifting lineups, repeat championships are hard to fake. Dannible & McKee’s back-to-back message reads like a team that believes its run still has room to grow.

The larger kickball world makes that kind of repeat success even easier to appreciate. The World Kickball Association says it hosts an invite-only Founders Cup® World Kickball Championship in Las Vegas during WAKApalooza, putting the sport’s highest-profile stage far beyond a neighborhood league night. The association’s rules page also keeps the tone firmly social, saying, “Have fun, kickball is about having fun and being social.” That balance of competition and camaraderie is exactly where workplace teams like Dannible & McKee tend to thrive.

The firm’s own description helps explain why the celebration landed the way it did. Dannible & McKee describes itself as a certified public accounting and consulting firm, and its website says it expanded to Florida and relocated its Schenectady office, with operations tied to Syracuse, Auburn, Binghamton, Schenectady and Tampa. The kickball championship fits that profile: a professional-services outfit using a recreational team to build identity, keep people connected, and turn a bracket win into a public statement of momentum.