Teen basketball prodigy wins National Spelling Bee: 'I don't really know how I do it'
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14-year-old Louisiana native Zaila Avant-garde already had multiple Guinness world records to her name when she was crowned the first African American winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday night.
"I don't really know, like, how I do any of the stuff I do," the teen prodigy told "America's Newsroom" Friday. "I'm pretty sure that juggling the -- keeping track of all the balls helps with spelling." Avant-garde only started spelling in time to qualify for the 2019 competition, crediting seven-hour study sessions and "a lot of luck" for her fast success. "To ask me how I do this type of stuff, like spelling and all this, it's like asking a millipede how it walks with all those legs, because then it's going to get all confused and all tangled up and it will just fall down," she explained, getting laughs from co-hosts Dana Perino and Trace Gallagher.
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