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[1] [12] One such speller, Nihar Janga from Austin, Texas, became the youngest champion in the Bee's history when he won the title in 2016 at the age of 11. [13] The 93rd Scripps National Spelling Bee was the first time that an African-American (Zaila Avant-garde) became the champion and only the second time that the champion was a black person.
Jacques A. Bailly (born January 28, 1966) is an American professor who has served as the Scripps National Spelling Bee's official pronouncer since 2003. [1] He was the 1980 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion.
In 2019, the Spelling Bee ran out of words that might challenge the contestants and ended up having 8 winners. The 2020 National Spelling Bee competition, originally scheduled for May 24, was suspended and later canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [2] [3] [4] This was the first time it had been canceled since 1945. [5]
The 93rd Scripps National Spelling Bee was held at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Bay Lake, Florida. The finals were held on July 8, 2021, and televised on ESPN2 and ESPN . [ 2 ] It was won by Zaila Avant-garde , the first African American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee, [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and the second black person to do so ...
Jody-Anne Maxwell (born 1986) is from Kingston, Jamaica and was the winner of the 1998 Scripps National Spelling Bee at the age of 12. [1] She made history as the first non-American to win the competition. [2] According to Ebony magazine, Maxwell, who was also the competition's first Black winner, was viewed as a celebrity on her return to ...
Zaila Avant-garde (born February 9, 2007) is an American speller, basketball player, and juggler.She won the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee.She is the first African-American contestant to win the bee and is the second Black winner, after Jamaica's Jody-Anne Maxwell.
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Frank Louis Neuhauser (September 29, 1913 – March 11, 2011) was an American patent lawyer and spelling bee champion, who won the first National Spelling Bee (now known as the Scripps National Spelling Bee [1]) in 1925 by successfully spelling the word "gladiolus". [1] [2] He was 11 years old when he won the spelling bee.