Katie Clairmont fifth at regional bee
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March 26, 2013 |
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Tricia
McCullough |
Eighth-grade Canfield Middle School student
Tricia McCullough, Coeur d’Alene, out-spelled 44
other fourth- through eighth-graders from the
five northern counties of Idaho to become the
champion speller in the ninth annual North Idaho
Regional Spelling Bee March 23 at North Idaho
College.
Valley View Elementary fifth grader Katie
Clairmont made it through round seven to finish
the bee in fifth place; Middle School seventh
grader Maria Roy made it through two rounds and
Valley View fourth grader Chase Tucker was
eliminated after one round.
McCullough previously participated in the North
Idaho Regional Spelling Bee as a fourth-grader
in 2009 and fifth-grader in 2010.
McCullough is the recipient of an all-expense
paid trip to the 2013 Scripps National Spelling
Bee May 26 through May 31, courtesy of event
sponsor Hagadone Newspapers.
She also received a Merriam Webster’s Third New
International Dictionary, a $100 Samuel Louis
Sugarman U.S. savings bond, a one-year
subscription to Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Student Edition, a plaque, a medallion and a
North Idaho College events pass for the
2013-2014 school year.
“It was evident that this year’s participants
had spent a lot of time studying and were ready
to compete,” said North Idaho Regional Spelling
Bee Coordinator Mindy Patterson.
This year’s spelling bee went on for 12 rounds.
The second-place speller Rebekah Pinkerton, a
seventh-grade homeschool student from Coeur
d’Alene who won the regional spelling bee in
2011, slipped up on the word “backstein.”
After correctly spelling “terrapin” in the round
prior, McCullough correctly spelled the
anticipated championship word “precocious,” to
be crowned the 2013 North Idaho Regional
Spelling Bee champion.
Brilliana Preston, an eighth-grade private
school student from Christian Center School,
earned third place, making it to Round 10 of the
bee before tripping up on the word “peloton.”
Each of the 44 participants from 54 schools in
11 districts across North Idaho, including
private school and home school divisions,
received medallions and NIC events passes.
The event was sponsored by Hagadone Newspapers
and coordinated/hosted by NIC. |
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