That’s all for now. Thanks as always for following along with us and be sure to check out our report from tonight’s historic bee.
Eight co-champions declared in unprecedented finish!
Rohan Raja spells odylic correctly and it’s official: the championship will be split eight ways. Rishik Gandhasri, Erin Howard, Saketh Sundar, Shruthika Padhy, Sohum Sukhatankar, Abhijay Kodali, Christopher Serrao and Rohan Raja are your co-champions! A run of 47 correct words to end it!
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This is unbelievable. Sohum Sukhatankar spells pendeloque and he’s a co-champion. Abhijay Kodali spells palama and he’s a co-champion. Christopher Serrao spells cernuous and he’s a co-champion. We’ve never seen anything like it. Can Rohan make it a clean eight-for-eight?
Make it four! Shruthika Padhy spells aiguillette without a hitch and the championship will be split four ways ... at least.
Tri-champions! Saketh Sundar drills bougainvillea and another champion joins the pack. The 13-year-old is the first ever National Spelling Bee champion from the state of Maryland.
We’re two for two! Erin Howard spells erysipelas correctly and she’s a co-champion with Rishik. She’s only the second National Spelling Bee champion from Alabama and the first in 45 years. Six more to go!
ERIN KNOWS IT AND IS CRYING. TIME FOR CHAMPION #2.#SpellingBee pic.twitter.com/peRTQpUuwg
— Pratik (@PatelESPN) May 31, 2019
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The 20th and final round begins. Rishik Gandhasri gets auslaut and he nails it! He’s officially a Scripps National Spelling Bee champion ... but he might not be alone for long.
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The 19th round is finished. Sohum Sukhatankar (seitan), Abhijay Kodali (badderlocks), Christopher Serrao (omphalopsychite) and Rohan Raja (chapon) make it a fourth straight perfect round. This is truly remarkable. Eight spellers remain and each will be given one more word in the 20th round. Everyone who spells his or her word correctly will be declared one of a possible eight co-champions!
Now they’re just having fun. Rishik Gandhasri (anthocyanin), Erin Howard (deixis), Saketh Sundar (mondegreen) and Shruthika Padhy (limitrophe) make it 35 straight without a miss. We’re halfway through the 19th round.
These guys just keep on ticking. Sohum Sukhatankar (paralipomena), Abhijay Kodali (cestui), Christopher Serrao (Logudorese) and Rohan Raja (hochmoor) conclude the 18th round with correct words. That’s 31 straight words with no missed words since way back in the 15th.
THIRTY. STRAIGHT. after christopher got his. #SpellingBee pic.twitter.com/TsjOVmtdnh
— Pratik (@PatelESPN) May 31, 2019
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The 18th round begins with each speller knowing they’re only three correct words from the trophy. Rishik Gandhasri drills murrain. Then Erin Howard nails calembour, making it 25 in a row overall without a miss. Saketh Sundar hits on makimono and Shruthika Padhy on therblig.
“We’re basically throwing the dictionary at you,” Dr Bailey says after the 17th round. “And so far you’re showing the dictionary who’s boss.” He goes on to say they have plenty of words left but they only have enough challenging words for three more rounds. Whoever is left standing after the completion of the 20th round will be declared co-champions of this year’s competition. Wow. Both an unexpected and unprecedented development. Will it go down in history as the night they broke the spelling bee?
Something special is unfolding here tonight. Shruthika Padhy (Moazagotl), Sohum Sukhatankar (urfirnis), Abhijay Kodali (aphesis), Christopher Serrao (jacqueminot) and Rohan Raja (Honiton) each drill their words. We’re into the fourth hour.
The 17th round begins. Rishik Gandhasri comes to the mic and asks Dr Bailey what time it is (11.18pm) and then correctly spells rhathymia. Erin Howard then fields the night’s first Tagalog word, drilling tulisan with no complications. Saketh Sundar burns a lot of clock with Roskopf, but ends up getting it right. That was the 100th word of the night. Ninety-two have been spelled correctly. Excuse me while I piece together fragments of my skull.
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It’s getting late for a school night but on we go! Saketh Sundar (vraic), Shruthika Padhy (sphaeriid), Sohum Sukhatankar (tathagata), Abhijay Kodali (chrotta) and Christopher Serrao (callejón) all spell their words correctly. Rohan Raja then closes the door on the 16th round with a correct spelling of Gaeltacht. Eight spellers remain alive after another perfect round.
📈Our top lookups are never more delightful than during the #spellingbee final. Right now we have auftaktigkeit, karmadharaya, thymele, tjaele, jindyworobak, and huanglongbing hanging out.
— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) May 31, 2019
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We’re off and running in the 16th round. Rishik Gandhasri kicks it off with tjaele, a Swedish word meaning frozen ground. A potentially tricky one but he drills it. Next it’s Erin Howard, who’s given Komondor, which, as you no doubt know from our Westminster dog show coverage, is type of Hungarian dog. She asks the language of origin and lets out a whoop of relief when the answer confirms her suspicions. The Alabama teenager rattles it out and is through to the next round.
On we go. Shruthika Padhy nails a second straight schwa word with taurokathapsia. Awesome stuff. Then Sohum Sukhatankar (saucisson), Abhijay Kodali (passacaglia), Christopher Serrao (caramoussal) and Rohan Raja (choumoellier) hit their marks. That concludes the 15th round. We started with 16 spellers more than two and a half hours ago. Half remain.
ELIMINATED: Simone Kaplan (tettigoniid), eight spellers left
Rishik Gandhasri spells fravashi correctly to open the 15th round, but the crowd-pleasing Simone Kaplan is eliminated on tettigoniid to the audible gasps of the gallery.
We’re done with the 14th round. Sohum Sukhatankar (allothimorph), Abhijay Kodali (auftaktigkeit, I mean really), Christopher Serrao (imbirussú) and Rohan Raja (Nibelung) all hit their words. Into the 15th round with nine spellers left.
Crowd favorite Shruthika Padhy is next. She’s given karmadharaya and spells it with no issues. This definition, though.
This definition is a thing of beauty. #spellingbee #wordnerd pic.twitter.com/ga9V1Sj8P6
— Peter Sokolowski (@PeterSokolowski) May 31, 2019
ELIMINATED: Alice Liu (ischiocerite), nine spellers left
Rishik Gandhasri (nyaya), Simone Kaplan (manualiter), Erin Howard (zamacueca), Saketh Sundar (geeldikkop) hit their words to open the 14th round. But Liu, so sharp throughout the competition, is thrown for a miss on Rassenkreis and we’re down to nine.
We’ve breezed through the 13th round. Shruthika Padhy (bresaola), Sohum Sukhatankar (chocalho), Abhijay Kodali (Catilinarian), Christopher Serrao (grasseyement) and Rohan Raja (vintem) all betray no sign of nerves in nailing their words. On we go into the 14th!
ELIMINATED: Navneeth Murali (ischiocerite), 10 spellers left
Navneeth Murali looked stunned and then immediately disappointed as he misspells ischiocerite. We’re down to 10 spellers.
We’re off to a brisk start in the 13th round. Rishik Gandhasri (chelydroid), Simone Kaplan (huanglongbing), Erin Howard (jindyworobak), Saketh Sundar (passepied) all nail their words. Now seventh-grader Alice Liu, takes less than a half-minute to spell surculose, which means having numerous branches arising from near the base. Her average spell time is down to 35 seconds.
And the 12th round closes with a run of correct spellings. Shruthika Padhy drills thymele, which, ironically, is the very word that eliminated her coach (and Guardian contributor) Scott Remer when he competed in 2008. Then Sohum Sukhatankar (trachyte), Abhijay Kodali (Heideggerian), Christopher Serrao (Macclesfield) and Rohan Raja (calathos) all hit their words. We’re headed to the 13th round with 11 spellers remaining.
ELIMINATED: Colette Giezentanner (Chama), 11 spellers left
The delightful Colette Giezentanner is given Chama, which is a genus of eulamellibranchiate bivalve mollusks of warm or tropical seas having fixed massive irregular inequivalve shells and comprising the rock oysters and extinct related forms. Naturally. But she’s tripped up by the word. “Well, it was bound to happen sometime!” she says with a smile. Thus drops the curtain on what was a scintillating debut showing for the budding writer from St Louis. She’ll be back.
#Speller304 Colette Giezentanner caught our eyes earlier today with her spirited socks. She first accidentally rocked mismatched ones at a regional bee and has worn them that way at every bee since. #spellingbee pic.twitter.com/y9MHNvcVDG
— Scripps National Spelling Bee (@ScrippsBee) May 31, 2019
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Saketh Sundar leaves things late. But he finishes a correct spelling of psammosere with 12 seconds to spare. Alice Liu then delivers another rapid-fire spelling (this time of murrele), which lowers her average spell time in the competition to 36 seconds. Now Navneeth Murali is given a geographical entry with Beira and he looks a bit rattled. Can he make out the Portuguese root? We’re under a minute. We’re under 40 seconds. He doesn’t know it. But he takes a shot ... and he nails it!
ELIMINATED: Nicholas D’Sa (jalap), 12 spellers left
Simone Kaplan wastes zero time rattling off leister, then Erin Howard takes her time correctly spelling meerschaum. But Nicholas D’Sa hears the bell when he misspells jalap. Only the fourth miss out of 50 words so far tonight. Simply mind-boggling.
Rishik Gandhasri kicks off the 12th round. He’s given coryphée, a ballet dancer who dances in a small group instead of in the corps de ballet or as a soloist. He’s given all the information about it. He’s writing it out on his hand. One by one he conjures the letters ... and he’s through to the next round! Once he confirmed the etymology (French), he was golden.
Rohan Raja is on the mic to close out the 11th round. He’s given sobole (a sucker, stolon or shoot) and has no problem with it. Eleven rounds down. Fourteen spellers left.
And on we go. Navneeth Murali (omphacite), Colette Giezentanner (fucus), Shruthika Padhy (paulopost), Sohum Sukhatankar (cullis), Abhijay Kodali (fonctionnaire) and Christopher Serrao (bassanello). We’ve been spelling for an hour and a half with only three eliminations.
I love her. #SpellingBee pic.twitter.com/RrMi5QVDqg
— Mandi Bierly (@MandiBierly) May 31, 2019
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ELIMINATED: Yolanda Ni (hieracium), 13 spellers left
And our third speller of the night goes out as 14-year-old Yolanda Ni hears the dreaded bell after letting time run down, taking a stab on hieracium and missing the mark.
We’re into the 11th round. Fourteen spellers left. Rishik Gandhasri (bottarga), Simone Kaplan (athyreosis), Erin Howard (pallone), Nicholas D’Sa (lobbygow) and Saketh Sundar (doronicum) all spell their words correctly. Now Missouri’s Alice Liu makes a mockery of chaebol, which means a family-controlled industrial conglomerate in South Korea. Put on the coffee.
ELIMINATED: Hephzibah Sujoe (flaser), 14 spellers left
Moments after Rohan Raja spells bozzetto correctly, Hephzibah, whose older brother won in 2014, is tripped up on flaser and she’s the second speller of the night to go down. Oh no!
Next it’s crowd favorite Colette Giezentanner. She nails concentus. Then it’s Shruthika Padhy, who methodically writes Borinqueño on her hand as she recites it back calmly to Dr Bailey. He’s followed by Sohum Sukhatankar, who has no problems with Golconda. Then it’s 12-year-old Abhijay Kodali, who bangs out terrones. Now it’s Christopher Serrao, who takes a breath and hits on atabaque. This is getting wild. Fifteen spellers still alive and none of them betraying even a hint of nerves. Rock steady all around.
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Navneeth Murali is next. He’s given haustellum, a proboscis adapted for sucking blood or the juices of plants, and casually nails it. We’re an hour into tonight’s finals and only one word has been spelled incorrectly so far.
They’re moving through words more quickly now. Erin Howard (tinaja), Nicholas D’Sa (oeconomus), Saketh Sundar (paxiuba) and Alice Liu (psoas) each drill their words. Liu, the 12-year-old from Missouri, has been particularly brisk in her work with an average spell time of 37 seconds in this year’s bee. Yolanda Ni then follows with a correct spelling of Maillard and we’re breaking for commercial once more.
ELIMINATED: Aisha Randhawa (cuirassier), 15 spellers left
We have our first misstep of the night as Aisha Randhawa is tripped up by cuirassier, a mounted soldier wearing a cuirass. Oh dear!
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Simone Kaplan is back for her second word of the night. It’s an easy one for the Florida teenager: autotopagnosia. She’s through to the 11th round.
Rishik Gandhasri kicks off the 10th round. His second word of the night is myctophid. He’s taking a long time here. We’re under 40 seconds. Under 30 seconds. Under 20 seconds ... but he drills the spelling. That’s the second time Rishik has left things late, but there are no points for spelling the quickest.
Hephzibah Sujoe is the final speller of round nine. The Bethesda Christian School seventh-grader plays the violin, piano and flute – and, it must be noted, she named her flute Alexander the Great. Her word is campylobacter, a type of bacterium. That’s easy work. She nails it and all 16 spellers have correctly spelled their first word. It’s the first perfect round to start an evening finals in the history of the National Spelling Bee.
Here’s Rohan Raja, a seventh-grader from Coppell Middle School West in Dallas. He plays tennis and cricket and loves watching superhero movies and anime. He’s dealt a Japanese word with kagura (a stately dance of the Shinto religion) and it gives him no trouble. He’s through to the next round.
Next it’s Christopher Serrao. The 13-year-old, a seventh-grader at Readington Middle School in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, likes to travel and try new cuisines. His word is apophysitis, which is a painful inflammation where a muscle or tendon attaches to the bone. And that’s not going to be a problem for Chris. Not one bit. The perfect start continues.
Abhijay Kodali is next, a 12-year-old sixth-grader from McKamy Middle School in Dallas. He was given a pet German Shepherd named Zeus as a gift for last year’s promising result: a tie for third place. Can he go further tonight? Watching him bang out alferez just now while hardly breaking a sweat, who in their right mind would doubt him?
Sohum Sukhatankar is next. He’s a 13-year-old seventh-grader from St Mark’s School of Texas in Dallas who taught himself how to fold origami at the age of eight by watching YouTube videos. He’s given the word quarrion (a small crested Australian parrot) and wastes no time crunching it out. We’re a perfect 12-for-12 on the night so far as we break for a TV commercial. At this rate it could be a long night.
Next is Shruthika Padhy, the 13-year-old from Cherry Hill, New Jersey. She’s become a very familiar face after finishing in the top 10 in each of the last two years while endearing herself to viewers with her habit of writing out the words on her hands. Her word is emberizine, which is a type of bird. She burns a lot of time while asking four questions about the roots ... but comes through with the correct spelling to advance to the next round.
The crowd-pleasing Colette Giezentanner is next up. The sixth-grader from Robert H Sperreng Middle School in St Louis is a budding writer who’s completed numerous short stories and one 100-page story. Her word is holishkes (KHAH-lish-kuhz), which is a stuffed cabbage. No sweat! We’re still perfect with six spellers to go in the ninth round.
The glottal 'h' in 'holishkes' is shown in phonetic transcription by an underlined 'k': \ ˈḵälishkə̇z\
— Peter Sokolowski (@PeterSokolowski) May 31, 2019
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Next up is Navneeth Murali, a seventh-grader from Woodrow Wilson Middle School in Edison, New Jersey. He’s learning to play Indian classical music on the electronic keyboard and doesn’t miss a chance to play whenever he has time. You may remember him from his fifth-place finish last year. His first word of the night is marmennill ... and he takes a brief pause and prods Dr Bailey for information before calmly giving the correct spelling.
Next it’s Yolanda Ni. A 14-year-old from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, she’s played the violin and the piano since she was five and has been to two international festivals. She steps up and nails the psithyrus to make it a perfect eight-for-eight midway through round nine.
Alice Liu is next. She’s a 12-year-old from St Louis who plays the oboe and just joined the Crestview Middle School jazz band. Her word is kairos (the opportune and decisive moment) and she keeps the flawless start going. Interestingly, that word also appeared in the 1999 and 2009 bees.
The variant pronunciation for 'kairos' is indicated by parentheses around the initial stress mark: \ (ˈ)kī¦räs\
— Peter Sokolowski (@PeterSokolowski) May 31, 2019
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Next is Saketh Sundar, an eighth-grader at Clarksville Middle School less than an hour’s drive from here in Columbia. So it’s basically a home game for him. Saketh, who listens to TED Talks to learn new things from experts in his free time, is coming off T19, T12, and T46 finishes in the last three bees. His word is scuppaug, a type of fish occurring from South Carolina to Maine, and he calmly delivers.
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The next speller is Nicholas D’Sa. He’s an eighth-grader at St Cecilia Catholic School in Orange County, a first degree black belt in tae kwon do and he has played the piano since second grade. His first word of the night is alloeostropha ... and he spends less than a minute at the mic before banging it out. The perfect start continues.
Erin Howard is next. The eighth-grader at Mountain Gap P-8 School in Birmingham, Alabama, is back in the championship finals for a third straight year after finishing ninth last year and tied for seventh in 2017. When she’s not spelling basically everything correctly, Erin writes instrumental electronic music, including this number which took first place in the Alabama PTA Reflections arts competition. Her word is Tophet, which is a place or state of misery. Drills it and she’s through to the 10th round.
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Now it’s Aisha Randhawa. She’s a seventh-grader who plays the alto saxophone and piano in the jazz band at Auburndale Intermediate School in Riverside, California. It’s her second straight year on the prime-time stage after tying for seventh last year (after tying for 35th in 2017 and 22nd in 2016). Her word is jabiru, a large stork of tropical America. She asks for the info ... then confidently steps up and nails it: J-A-B-I-R-U.
Simone's average spell time before this round was 27 seconds. She spent almost a minute on that one but still knew it cold. #spellingbee
— Amy Goldstein at #spellingbee (@northboundlane) May 31, 2019
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Next up is Simone Kaplan, a seventh-grader from St Bonaventure Catholic School outside Miami. Her favorite word is zyzzogeton because, she says, it is fun to say and is the last word in Merriam-Webster Unabridged. Her word is Stakhanovite ... and she wastes no time stepping up and methodically nailing it.
The ESPN telecast is underway and we’re set to begin. And they’re off! First up is Rishik Gandhasri, a seventh-grader at Chaboya Middle School in San Jose where he’s an active participant in his school band. The 13-year-old plays three different instruments but his favorite is the saxophone. His word is frailejón, any of several xerophytic plants of the genus Espeletia of the higher Ande. He asks for the language of origin (Spanish), which should help him here. But a lot of time is running off the clock. He’s asked for the language of origin again. And he’s under 30 seconds. He’s going for it. And he nails it.
If you’re interested in playing along at home, ESPN has you covered. The network is once again offering a special Play-Along telecast of tonight’s finals, which can be watched on ESPNU or via the ESPN app. The Play-Along feed allows viewers to compete alongside the contestants by offering a one-in-four chance to pick the correct spelling of a given word, plus informational boxes highlighting the word’s etymology, definition, clear pronunciation and part of speech.
There’s plenty at stake for the 16 spellers who made it this far. Tonight’s champion will receive: a $50,000 cash prize and the Scripps National Spelling Bee trophy (from Scripps), a $2,500 cash prize and complete reference library (from Merriam-Webster) and $400 of reference works (from Encyclopædia Britannica). They will also be jetted to New York to appear on Live with Kelly and Ryan then Los Angeles for a spot on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The runner-up receives $25,000, with cash prizes for third ($15,000), fourth ($10,000), fifth ($5,000) and sixth ($2,500). The seventh- through 16th-placed finishers go home with $2,000 each.
The national anthem was just performed by Danielle Serrao, who competed in the 2016 bee. Her brother, Christopher, is one of the 16 remaining spellers in tonight’s contest.
Incredibly, this marks the 92nd year of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The first was held in 1925 with just nine contestants, with Kentucky’s Frank Neuhauser taking home the title by spelling gladiolus correctly. Other tricky championship-winning words down the years include esquamulose (1962), xanthosis (1995), succedaneum (2001) and appoggiatura (2005).
Ever wonder how you’d match up against the champions of the past? Here’s your chance. Take our quiz to see if you can spell a sampling of the championship-winning words from previous bees.
A look at tonight’s finalists
Welcome to tonight’s championship finals of the 92nd Annual Scripps National Spelling Bee. More than 11m students participated in this year’s competition, ranging in age from seven to 15 and hailing from all 50 US states, overseas territories and six other countries: the Bahamas, Canada, Ghana, Jamaica, Japan and South Korea. Of those, a record number of 562 finalists earned a trip to Washington by winning spelling bees organized by their local sponsors – typically newspapers, universities or non-profits – or through Scripps’ two-year-old wild-card program. That field was further winnowed during today’s rigorous five-and-a-half-hour day session to the 16 spelling aces who will compete in tonight’s nationally televised finals, which kick off in about 45 minutes.
Here’s who they are:
Rishik Gandhasri, Speller No 5 (Results)
Age 13, 7th grade
School: Chaboya Middle School
Hometown: San Jose, California
Sponsor: Bay Area Regional Spelling Bee
Previous results: T25th in 2018
Simone Kaplan, Speller No 65 (Results)
Age 13, 7th grade
School: St Bonaventure Catholic School
Hometown: Davie, Florida
Sponsor: The Miami Herald
Previous results: T10th in 2018, T189th in 2017
Aisha Randhawa, Speller No 88 (Results)
Age 13, 8th grade
School: Auburndale Intermediate School
Hometown: Corona, California
Sponsor: The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
Previous results: T7th in 2018, T35th in 2017, T22nd in 2016
Erin Howard, Speller No 93 (Results)
Age 14, 8th grade
School: Mountain Gap P-8 School
Hometown: Huntsville, Alabama
Sponsor: Adventure Travel (Birmingham, Alabama)
Previous results: 9th in 2018, T7th in 2017, T22nd in 2016
Nicholas D’Sa, Speller No 101 (Results)
Age 13, 8th grade
School: St Cecilia Catholic School
Hometown: Tustin, California
Sponsor: The Orange County Register
Previous results: None
Saketh Sundar, Speller No 132 (Results)
Age 13, 8th grade
School: Clarksville Middle School
Hometown: Clarksville, Maryland
Sponsor: Howard County Library (Columbia, Maryland)
Previous results: T19th in 2018, T12th in 2017, T46th in 2016
Alice Liu, Speller No 252 (Results)
Age 12, 7th grade
School: Crestview Middle School
Hometown: Chesterfield, Missouri
Sponsor: St Louis Post-Dispatch
Previous results: T34th in 2018, T12th in 2017
Yolanda Ni, Speller No 257 (Results)
Age 14, 8th grade
School: Oak Grove Middle School
Hometown: Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Sponsor: Mississippi Association of Educators
Previous results: T42nd in 2018
Navneeth Murali, Speller No 291 (Results)
Age 13, 7th grade
School: Woodrow Wilson Middle School
Hometown: Edison, New Jersey
Sponsor: Asbury Park Press/Home News Tribune
Previous results: 5th in 2018
Colette Giezentanner, Speller No 304 (Results)
Age 12, 6th grade
School: Robert H Sperreng Middle School
Hometown: Saint Louis, Missouri
Sponsor: Robert H Sperreng Middle School (St Louis, Missouri)
Previous results: None
Shruthika Padhy, Speller No 307 (Results)
Age 13, 8th grade
School: Rosa International Middle School
Hometown: Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Sponsor: Rosa International Middle School (Cherry Hill, New Jersey)
Previous results: T10th in 2018, T17th in 2017, T22nd in 2016
Sohum Sukhatankar, Speller No 354 (Results)
Age 13, 7th grade
School: St Mark’s School of Texas
Hometown: Dallas, Texas
Sponsor: Dallas Sports Commission
Previous results: T25th in 2018, T23th in 2017
Abhijay Kodali, Speller No 407 (Results)
Age 12, 6th grade
School: McKamy Middle School
Hometown: Flower Mound, Texas
Sponsor: Dallas Sports Commission, Dallas, Texas
Previous results: T3rd in 2018
Christopher Serrao, Speller No 427 (Results)
Age 13, 7th grade
School: Readington Middle School
Hometown: Whitehouse Station, New Jersey
Sponsor: Discover Lehigh Valley (Allentown, Pennsylvania)
Previous results: T41th in 2018, T34th in 2017
Rohan Raja, Speller No 462 (Results)
Age 13, 7th grade
School: Coppell Middle School West
Hometown: Irving, Texas
Sponsor: Dallas Sports Commission
Previous results: T10th in 2018
Hephzibah Sujoe, Speller No 562 (Results)
Age 13, 7th grade
School: Bethesda Christian School
Hometown: Fort Worth, Texas
Sponsor: Bethesda Christian School (Haltom City, Texas)
Previous results: T323rd in 2018
Bryan will be here shortly. In the meantime why not read spelling tutor Scott Remer’s essay on what it takes to build a National Spelling Bee champion.
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