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View Missouri’s 15 students spelling their way into the national spotlight this week

May 28, 2018 By Alisa Nelson

Missouri has 15 kids participating in this year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee underway in the Washington, D.C. area. One of the contestants, Alice Liu of the St. Louis suburb of Chesterfield, will make her second consecutive appearance in the annual contest. The other Missouri spellers come from virtually all corners of the state.

The competition has been supersized this year to include 519 spellers, up from 291 last year. A wildcard program has reportedly been enacted for kids who did not qualify the traditional way to instead allow them to pay their own way.

Round two begins Tuesday, followed by Round 3 on Wednesday and the finals on Thursday.

Missouri’s spellers include:

Sophia Nguyen of St. Joseph
Ryan Smith of Ballwin
Rohan Rao of Columbia

Natalie Burnett of St. Joseph
Mollie Miner of Sedalia
Liam Hahn of Rolla

Lauren Holsapple of Jefferson City
Kael Miranda of Columbia
Joshua Roodhouse Hale of St. Peters

Joseph Benson of Kansas City
Delaney Nash of Kansas City
Brayden Armes of Fredericktown

Brady Hughes of Pleasant Hill
Alice Liu of Chesterfield
Alecia McCulley of Florissant

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