LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) - This year's National Spelling Bee champion Zaila Avant-garde has earned even more recognition for her athletic prowess than her achievements in spelling. She is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

INCREDIBLE JOURNEY. ZAILA AVANT GARDE IS TAKING LIFE BY STORM, BREAKING GLASS CEILINGS AND CONQUERING GOALS LEFT AND RIGHT. NOW SHE’S IN HER FIRST SEMESTER OF COLLEGE AND SETTING HER SIGHTS NEARLY 239 ...

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 ...