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Zaila Avant-Garde, 13, Wins National Online Spelling Bee

Zaila Avant-Garde, 13, Wins National Online Spelling Bee

By goodblacknews on August 9, 2020

[Photo: Zaila Avant-Garde via Instagram | @basketballasart)]

According to wafb.com, 13 year-old Zaila Avant-Garde, a 7th grader from Harvey, LA, beat out 88 of the best young spellers in the country to win the first-ever Kaplan Online Spelling Bee, hosted in association with Hexco Academic.

Garde, who was the 2019 New Orleans regional spelling champion, won with the word “Qashqai” (definition: a migratory Turkic-speaking people of the Zagros mountains), after a hard-fought back-and-forth with runner-up Harini Logan, a 6th grader from San Antonio, TX. Chaitra Thummala, a 5th grader from San Ramon, CA, placed third.

Georgia Cheerleader Angel Rice, 16, sets Tumbling World Record

By goodblacknews on September 11, 2015
GA cheerleader
Angel Rice (Fox5Atlanta)

A 16-year-old Georgia cheerleader has just broken a tumbling world record.  Angel Rice completed ten double full twists in one minute while an official from the Guinness World Records counted the seconds of her tumbling routine.

“It took me until the next day to realize, wow!  It’s real!” Angel told Fox5Atlanta. ” It didn’t feel real when it was happening.  I had to actually think about it and look at the plaque.”

Tumbling coach Frank Riley said that he had taken notice of Angel the minute she arrived at his gym at just five years old.
Of course, now that Angel has broken the world record, everyone wants to know what she’ll do next. We’ll just have to wait and see.
“When she came it was like, ‘Wow! Who is this little girl?’” said Riley. “She was strong.  She wasn’t one of the kids that come to the gym and they’re scared. Anything I asked her to do she would try,” he added.

article via thegrio.com