Bees with the Archer sting

Rev Glen Archer has coached 26 champions in the National Spelling Bee Competition.



From 1993 to 2009, Rev Archer coached 17 consecutive champions.



He was also the coach of Jody-Anne Maxwell (then of Ardenne High School), the 1998 Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee Champion and the only non-American to have won that title.



1986 Karla McNish - Ardenne High



1987 Garfield Grandison - Ardenne High



1988 Rusanna Roberts - Ardenne High



1989 Ludlow Hoilett - Ardenne High



1990 Janice Maxwell - Ardenne High



1993 Charles Deans - Ardenne High



1994 Shanna Ricketts - Ardenne High



1995 Orville Ramocan - Ardenne High



1996 Jason James - Ardenne High



1997 Jody-Anne Maxwell - Ardenne High



Scripps Howard Spelling Bee Champion Jody-Anne Maxwell and coach, Rev. Glen Archer, on their arrival in Jamaica after competing in the American National Spelling Bee Competition.



1998 Kathryn Lewis - Ardenne High



1999 Romell Newby - Ardenne High



2000 Rhea Brathwaite - Ardenne High



2001 Daniel Thomas - Ardenne High



2002 Alicia Forrest - Ardenne High



2003 Trudy McLeary - Ardenne High



2004 Cornel Grey - Portmore Missionary Preparatory



2005 Stacey-Ann Pearson - Ardenne High School



2006 Rosanna Pike - Ardenne High School



2007 Regina Bish - Campion College



Champion coach Rev. Glen Archer congratulates Regina Bish after she won The Gleaner's Children's Own 2007 Spelling Bee All-Island Championship at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel in February 2007.



2008 Sade Dunbar - Immaculate Conception High School



2009 Shari-Jo Miller - Bishop Gibson High School



2011 Hanif Brown, Jr - Ardenne High School



2012 Gifton Wright - Kingston College



2013 Christian Allen - Ardenne High



2014 Tajaun Gibbison - Knox College



A proud Tajaun Gibbison (right, foreground) on his arrival at the Norman Manley International Airport last year. Others in the picture are (from left) the Rev Glen Archer, Tajaun's coach; Nordia Craig, The Gleaner's manager, business development and marketing; and Yvonne Gibbison, Tajaun's mother.



2015: Rev Archer was in hospital when his St Andrew Champion Sara-Beth McPherson won the Spelling Bee finals in Kingston.

READ: Ailing Glen Archer Proud Of His 'Dolly'

However, Archer's former Spelling Champion Hanif Brown took over the reins and brought McPherson to glory.