H-I-S-T-O-R-Y made last night nytimes.com/2021/07/09/us/… 
A really C-O-O-L moment for Zaila Avant-garde
https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1413320537087033344
2021 Spelling Bee winner and history-maker Zaila Avant-garde is also basketball prodigy who appeared in a commercial with Steph Curry.
In addition to this new title, she holds three Guinness world records for dribbling, bouncing and juggling basketballs.
In addition to this new title, she holds three Guinness world records for dribbling, bouncing and juggling basketballs.
https://twitter.com/Basketballasart/status/1399577253550436355
Update! Zaila Avant-garde tells @NewDay that winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee is “a dream come true.”
Avant-garde also says it felt like snapping out of a "surreal dream."
Avant-garde also says it felt like snapping out of a "surreal dream."
Zaila Avant-garde said she knew the winning word “murraya” because “I’d always connected it with Bill Murray.”
"But the hardest word I spelled in that competition for me was 'nepeta,' which was a word I almost got wrong."
"But the hardest word I spelled in that competition for me was 'nepeta,' which was a word I almost got wrong."
14-year-old Spelling Bee champ Zaila Avant-Garde on her future, which includes playing basketball at Harvard:
• Working for NASA
• NBA basketball coach
• Treating diseases with help of neuroscience
• Gene editing (Nobel prize?)
• Working for NASA
• NBA basketball coach
• Treating diseases with help of neuroscience
• Gene editing (Nobel prize?)
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