When I saw it, I, like, wanted to be in that book. How did you all come up with - how did that happen?ĪVANT-GARDE: The way that happened basically was that like when I was 8 years old, I got the Guinness World Record for my 8th birthday. MARTIN: Would it be accurate to say you're kind of competitive anyway? I mean, before, as we mentioned, you became spelling bee champion, you already had three Guinness World Records for most balls juggled in one minute, most dribbles in 30 seconds, and most balls dribbled simultaneously by one person, which is six. MARTIN: So you kind of got your appetite whetted there. And I won my regionals and went to Scripps for the first time.
And then I asked my 12th birthday for, like, entrance into my local regionals. And it kind of became an idea there, just kind of, oh, I wonder if you should put her into a spelling bee. I was surprised that I could spell some of them. And then my father saw the spelling bee and stuff and asked me some words from them. So that's definitely something I've done a lot of. Reading books - I've read like over a thousand books. What got you started?ĪVANT-GARDE: Basically, since I was a young child, reading and words has, like, always been something that I loved. So, you know, you've only been competing in spelling for two years. And your guy, of course, Bill Murray, as I saw, he was cheering you on. I know - and also, you were on the - Jimmy Kimmel. There's so many other cool things, but that's just a brief - some of them. And also, when I went to the Espys, I got to talk to Sha'Carri Richardson, which is super cool to me. It's like the airplanes sometimes had TVs in them, so that was pretty cool. I really like going on trips and stuff and like being in the airplanes. What's the coolest thing to come from this experience so far?ĪVANT-GARDE: One of the coolest thing that happened was, like, just traveling around and stuff. MARTIN: So it's been just over a week since your win. Zaila Avant-garde, welcome.ĪVANT-GARDE: Thank you. We wanted to catch up with Zaila Avant-garde to talk about her success, and she is with us now. She already has three records in the Guinness Book of World Records for her basketball dribbling skills. But you might have heard this isn't her only accomplishment, just the latest. So let us add our congratulations to those already extended by Halle Berry, former president and first lady Barack and Michelle Obama and, of course, Bill Murray. MARTIN: That is 14-year-old Zaila Avant-garde winning the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: Bill Murray made the spelling bee.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: I don't see that here.
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