Nine-year-old Toriann Beckford is 2020 Spelling Bee champion
Published:Wednesday | February 5, 2020 | 12:00 AM
Nine-year-old Toriann Beckford is The Gleaner’s Children’s Own Spelling Bee Champion for 2020.
Beckford and her training partner Israel Burnett, with no handicaps left, battled for several minutes in a keen duel before she correctly spelled the word U-V-A-R-O-V-I-T-E.
This is a chromium-bearing garnet group species.
Beckford is a student of the McAuley’s Primary School in St Catherine
“It wasn’t hard,” she said of her winning word in a post championship interview with Paula-Ann Porter Jones.
Meanwhile, coach Errol Campbell said the training sessions were very intense.
Campbell has had 12 parish champions and four consecutive national champions.
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