Harini Logan, Indian-origin teen wins Scripps National Spelling Bee 2022
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Harini, one of the best-known spellers entering the bee and a crowd favourite for her poise and positivity, wons more than $50,000 in cash and prizes.
Oxon Hill: Harini Logan was eliminated from the Scripps National Spelling Bee once, then reinstated. She missed four words in a gruelling standoff against Vikram Raju, including one that would have given her the title. In the first-ever lightning-round tiebreaker, Harini finally claimed the trophy. The 13-year-old eighth-grader from San Antonio, Texas, who competed in the last fully in-person bee three years ago and endured the pandemic to make it back, spelled 21 words correctly during a 90-second spell-off, beating Vikram by six.
Harini, one of the best-known spellers entering the bee and a crowd favourite for her poise and positivity, wins more than $50,000 in cash and prizes. Perhaps no champion has ever had more final-round flubs, but Harini was no less deserving.
She is the fifth Scripps champion to be coached by Grace Walters, a former speller, fellow Texan and student at Rice University who is considering bowing out of the coaching business. If so, she will depart on top.
The key moment came during the bee's much-debated multiple-choice vocabulary round, when Harini defined the word "pullulation" as the nesting of mating birds. Scripps said the correct answer was the swarming of bees. But wait!
By correctly spelling 22 words in the Spell-off, the 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee Champion is #Speller231 Harini Logan! #spellingbee pic.twitter.com/pl0NTznYVr
