7/22/2023 0 Comments Zaila avant guinness world recordsScripps National Spelling Bee winner Zaila Avant-garde has been busy since her victory on July 8.Īlready, the 14-year-old eighth-grader has been celebrated by the likes of Barack and Michelle Obama, LeBron James and Bill Murray. She says she's enjoyed the traveling since winning the spelling bee. Zaila hopes to go to Harvard one day besides playing in the WNBA, and wants to be an NBA coach and a NASA scientist.ĮSPN’s Amy Goldstein contributed to this report.Zaila Avant-garde attends the 2021 ESPY Awards on July 10 in New York City. We asked her how many words she could do in the spell-off, and the range is 16-18 and up to 30 – if she rattles off letters really fast. She has been prioritizing spelling for two years and has placed in the top 10 in several feeder bees such as North South Foundation, SpellPundit, South Asian Spelling Bee and Words of Wisdom. “For spelling,” Zaila said, “I usually try to do about 13,000 words, and that usually takes about seven hours or so.” ![]() Zaila says that winning the bee is cooler than making it to the WNBA because of her hard work in preparation for the competition. “Basketball started when I was 5 years old and the reason was not because it interested me, but it interested my parents to get me not bouncing around the house causing trouble,” she told ESPN. Still, basketball was not always her first love. She hopes to play for the Minnesota Lynx someday. Yes, Zaila dreams of making it to the WNBA like her idols Maya Moore and Diana Taurasi. Making it to the WNBA would be cool, but … They share a tutor, Cole Shafer-Ray, a 20-year-old Yale student who was the 2015 Scripps runner-up, and practiced together virtually before the tournament. The two skillful spellers actually knew each other before the bee. When it came down to Zaila’s winning word, she was up against Chaitra Thummala, a 12-year-old speller from Frisco, Texas, who had just misspelled the compound word “neroli oil,” making her the runner-up. She studied and prepared for the bee with other Scripps finalists
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