A 14-year-old girl from Harvey won the Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday night becoming the first person from Louisiana to win the bee. Zaila Avant-garde is also the first African American winner of the 96-year-old tournament. She spelled Murraya correctly to win.
Murraya is a genus of a citrus plant native to southeast Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
Zaila told Good Morning America she studies 13-thousand words a day. The Jefferson Parish native also spelling is a hobby, but her true passion is basketball and she holds three Guinness World Records for dribbling multiple basketballs simultaneously.
She says her crowning achievement is the most basketballs dribbled simultaneously for a minute and the number is six.
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