[How do you spell winner? Z-A-I-L-A!]

[roaming_kate23]

14-year old Zaila Avant- Garde of Harvey Louisiana won the Scripps Spelling Bee.

Her winning word? Murraya(it’s a flowering plant from Asia and Australia.)

She is also the first African-American winner(there was a winner from Jamaica in 1998 and this year they had a kid from the Bahamas.)