Good Morning. I hope that you are enjoying this weekend, fully vaccinated, with family and friends.
Congratulations to this fabulous young lady!πππ
13-year-old Zaila Avant-garde of Louisiana is the 93rd Scripps National #SpellingBee champion. Zaila is the first Black winner of the competition. Congratulations, #Zaila! pic.twitter.com/B6HZ7hdiyB
— The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center (@TheKingCenter) July 9, 2021
π¨ 14-year-old Zaila Avant-garde just won the 2021 Scripps Spelling Bee with the word "murraya" pic.twitter.com/flMgCJY7da
— Brandon Wall (@Walldo) July 9, 2021
National Spelling Bee champion Zaila Avant-garde says she is interested in playing basketball at Harvard University, after which she is thinking of four career options:
– NBA basketball coach
– Working for NASA
– Neuroscience
– Gene editing pic.twitter.com/q6cUWoglVR
— New Day (@NewDay) July 9, 2021
IF you like that spin wait til you see her spin on the court https://t.co/J6lMDx9tbs
— Mustafa-Burner (@MustafasBurner) July 9, 2021
Multiple Guinness World Records. A tv spot with NBA star @StephenCurry30. A Bee finalist. What would be highlights for most will likely just be footnotes in the life of #Speller133 Zaila Avant-garde. This @WNBA and @NASA scientist hopeful has big plans. #SpellingBee #TheBeeIsBack pic.twitter.com/6Pr40nhdKY
— Scripps National Spelling Bee (@ScrippsBee) July 9, 2021
Zaila Avant-garde:
-is a 3x Guinness World Record-holder
-is a top rated basketball prospect
-only started competitive spelling 2 years ago(!)
-just won the Scripps National Spelling Bee— Jacob Rubashkin (@JacobRubashkin) July 9, 2021
Scholarship offers pile up for 14-year-old spelling bee champ Zaila Avant-garde https://t.co/j0D0CkODS3 pic.twitter.com/dYn2uQiVJ7
— The Hill (@thehill) July 11, 2021
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Erica Buddington (@ericabuddington) tweeted at 0:46 AM on Fri, Jul 09, 2021:
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Whenever there’s a historic moment, I like to revisit history connected to it. So the story of Marie C. Bolden, a Black “champion speller,” feels important to tell today. Almost two decades before the Scripps National Spelling Bee, her name made headlines – everywhere. https://t.co/TDkor9lYjZ
(https://twitter.com/ericabuddington/status/1413374003927003141?s=03)
The New York Times (@nytimes) tweeted at 11:00 AM on Sun, Jul 11, 2021:
Before Zaila Avant-garde became the first Black American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee, other Black students faced decades of discrimination and doubts about their abilities. https://t.co/hRcDgKpe7H
(https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1414253189440868357?s=03)
Good Morning, Everyoneπππ