Zaila Avant-garde understood the significance of what she was doing as she stood on the Scripps National Spelling Bee stage, peppering pronouncer Jacques Bailly with questions about Greek and Latin ...

The biographical blurbs about competitors in the Scripps National Spelling Bee include a litany of other interests, from sports to musical instruments to science competitions to Indian classical dance ...

Zaila Avant-garde walks onto the basketball court with the kind of confidence an NBA player might exude, but the Whitney Houston shirt she sports alludes to the light-hearted nature that follows this ...

HARVEY, La. -- Leave it to small-town Louisiana to know how to throw a party for one of their own. The community of Harvey, Louisiana threw a well-deserved parade for 14-year-old Zaila Avant-Garde, in ...

Scripps National Spelling Bee winner Zaila Avant-garde's hometown threw her a parade fit for a champion. According to Nola.com and WDSU, Avant-garde's hometown of Harvey, Louisiana, threw the ...

Zaila Avant-garde is this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee champion. The 8th grader from Louisiana spelled the word murraya correctly to win. According to the Associated Press, Avant-garde, 14, is ...