Virginia Munn, a seventh grader at Gainesville Middle School East, won the school district’s annual spelling bee on Jan. 24 at the board office on Oak Street.
Gainesville City School Officials said that after 12 rounds of spelling and vocabulary questions, Munn correctly spelled “writhes.”
“The competition was rigorous and students had to juggle nerves in front of an audience while spelling increasingly difficult words,” Michelle Cantrell, Assistant Director of Federal Programs for GCSS said. “Virginia is no stranger to winning spelling bees as this is her third bee win: she’s a fierce competitor.”…