NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. But for now she's just going to celebrate.ĪVANT-GARDE: Having fun, eating a lot - that type of thing.Ĭopyright © 2021 NPR. And one day, she wants to play in the WNBA. She holds three Guinness world records for dribbling multiple basketballs. KING: And in addition to being one of the best spellers in the country, she's also an amazing basketball player. And it's a great way to kind of connect yourself with education, which is super important. I'm really hoping lots of little brown girls all over the world are, like, really motivated to try out spelling and stuff because it's really a fun thing to do. And so that's how that word stuck in my head because it's spelled like Bill Murray's name.įADEL: The historic nature of her win isn't lost on Avant-garde.ĪVANT-GARDE: It makes me feel really proud. The winning word, murraya, is a genus of tropical trees.ĪVANT-GARDE: I'd like to send a thank you to Bill Murray because the reason I knew that word, murraya, was because of the movie "Lost In Translation," which when I was a little kid, I, like, used to listen to the soundtrack. She says she's been getting ready for two years and studied 13,000 words a day. Which is saying something because she knows a lot of words. ZAILA AVANT-GARDE: Murraya - M-U-R-R-A-Y-A.įADEL: Fourteen-year-old Zaila Avant-garde became the first African American student to win the competition.ĪVANT-GARDE: I can't even fully put into words how I feel right now. Last night the Scripps National Spelling Bee crowned a new winner.
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