WASHINGTON: A black teenager becomes the first African-American to win the title of the US National Spelling Lebah on Thursday, marking a milestone for the community, and in the process, loosening the handle, American-American children who exercise on the last two decades for two Last decade.
Zaila Avant-Garde, a 14-year-old child from Louisiana, spelled Murraya said – a type of tree – to win the trophy defeat Chaitra Thummala, a 12-year-old six-year-old student from San Francisco and nine other finalists, all except one from India-origin.
Chaitra slipped on neroli oil (fragrant pale yellow essential oil).
Zaila will receive a $ 50,000 cash prize and a number of scholarships, awards, and headlines that accompany events that have now become the principal of American TV.
Jill Biden’s first woman, a British professor, was among those who stopped by the event, which continued this year after being canceled in 2020 for the first time in the 96-year history due to a pandemic.
Win Zaila raised a comparison with Arthur Ashe won the Wimbledon championship in 1968 to trigger black interest in tennis.
“I hope that in a few years I will see more African American women, and men too, alright in the bee spelling scripps,” he said in the morning which was good morning, called the “opening gate to be interested in education .
“Zaila’s interest beyond spelling and language.
He holds three Guinness World Records — for most basketball lits simultaneously (six basketball for 30 seconds); The most large bouncesball bounces (307 bounces in 30 seconds); and the most juggle bounce in one minute (255 uses four basketball).
Besides winning the beekeeper, he also wants to play in the NBA Women’s Championship.
Zaila was the first African-America and only the second black contestant won after Jody-Anne Maxwell from Jamaica, who won in 1998, before Indian-American children began to dominate the event.
Former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were among those who were disputed in Zaila’s victory and congratulated him.