2014

The 87th Scripps National Spelling Bee took place on May 29th, 2014. It was held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, and 281 spellers participated.

Ansun Sujoe and Sriram Hathwar tied after exhausting the word list. They both misspelled a word in Round 16 but managed to spell the rest of the words correctly.

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About the 87th Bee

Champion

Sriram Hathwar

Painted Post, New York

Sriram Hathwar, age 14, sponsored by Corning Rotary Club, won the $30,000 prize by correctly spelling the word “stichomythia.”

WINNING WORD

Stichomythia(n)

stih-kuh-MITH-ee-uh

delivered in alternating lines (as in classical Greek drama).

This word is from a Greek word.

Champion

Ansun Sujoe

Fort Worth, Texas

Ansun Sujoe, age 13, sponsored by Texas Christian University, won the $30,000 prize by correctly spelling the word “feuilleton.”

Winning Word

Feuilleton(n)

fahy-uh-TOHN

A part of a European newspaper or magazine devoted to material designed to entertain the general reader.

This word is from French.

Location

Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center

at the Maryland Ballroom

OFFICIALS

Directors

Paige P. Kimble

Judges

  • Mary Brooks
  • Blake Giddens
  • Dr. Ed Low
  • George Thampy

Pronouncers

  • Dr. Jacques Bailly
  • Dr. Brian Sietsema

SPELLER ROSTER

  • Christianne Abella
  • Alia Abiad
  • Caribbean Adams
  • Ferdian Aditama
  • Christine Alex
  • Hayat Alkadir
  • Kellan All
  • Victoria Allen
  • Lillian Allingham
  • Divya Amirtharaj
  • Katie Ammann
  • Alekhya Ankaraju
  • Selena Antosh
  • Marguerite Arbogast
  • Nafisa Asad
  • Lwin Moe Aung
  • Kyle Ayisi
  • Suneel Banerjee
  • Brianna Bartley
  • Razeen Basunia
  • Gia Lauren Bautista
  • Sophie Bergman
  • Andy Bertodano
  • Lillian Bischof
  • Alessandro Luis Bolus
  • Lloyd Bonds
  • Michaella Bostrom
  • Maddie Bowers
  • Alyssa Boynton
  • Kalika Bridwell
  • Nathaniel Britton
  • Jonathan Buckley
  • Gavin Buehler
  • Jae Canetti
  • Jonathan Capuyan
  • Sai Vishudhi Chandrasekhar
  • Dana Chiueh
  • Jeffrey Cho
  • Isabel Cholbi
  • Hannah Citsay
  • Bettie Closs
  • Sam Coats
  • Kimmie Collins
  • Ron Rocky Coloma
  • Muriel Cotman
  • Lauren Crabtree
  • Kevin Cui
  • Joseph Cusi Delamerced
  • Katie Danis
  • Max Danner
  • Tushan Dargan
  • Shobha Dasari
  • Riju Datta
  • Sasha Davis
  • Peter Davis
  • Annabelle Day
  • Selomi Dayaprema
  • Shane DeSilva
  • Nila Dhinaker
  • Andrew Dunn
  • Nikhil Dwibhashyam
  • Maia Dykstra
  • Eboseremhen Eigbe
  • William Elder
  • Andrew Erdman
  • George Estep
  • Walter Fa’apouli
  • Noah Fitzgerald
  • Abigail FitzGibbon
  • Patrizzia Fox-Beaudet
  • Colin Francis
  • Téa Freedman-Susskind
  • Naama Friedman
  • Melina Gabele
  • Madhav Chand Gampala
  • Krishna Gandhi
  • Emily Garcia
  • Sumedh Garimella
  • Stephanie Garza
  • Jacob George
  • Krishan Ghosh
  • Tajaun Gibbison
  • Hussain Godhrawala
  • Allison Grygar
  • Emily Gunkel
  • Kaitlin Hall
  • Peyton Hall
  • Mikayla Hall
  • Ted Hamacher
  • Justin Hamilton
  • Tristan Hankins
  • Harry Harman
  • Alexandra Harper
  • Melody Harwood
  • Yasir Hasnain
  • Sriram Hathwar
  • Alexander Hauer
  • Summer Hayes
  • Cameron Haynes
  • Amelia Hebert
  • Emily Helm
  • Sean Hickey
  • Stephen Hochschild
  • Sterling Hollond
  • Ed Horan
  • Mary Horton
  • Raimah Hossain
  • Erik Hovland
  • Emily Hynes
  • Danyah Imam
  • Elisabeth Ince
  • Sean Ives
  • Hannah Jackson
  • Phoebe Jackson
  • Michael James
  • Nathan Jasper
  • Christy Jestin
  • Khushi Jeswani
  • Vanessa Jodlowski
  • Grace Johanningsmeier
  • Michael Jones
  • Alex Jurich
  • Olivia Kaiser
  • Arushi Kalpande
  • Maria Kaltchenko
  • Meghana Kamineni
  • Rushil Kasetty
  • Adam Kastler
  • Paul Keaton
  • Nathan Keenan
  • Joshua Kelley
  • Brayden Kelley
  • Alaina Kenny
  • David Khamis
  • Faaris Khan
  • Mark Kivimaki
  • Neha Konakalla
  • Prachi Kondapuram
  • Elias Kondolios
  • Varun Kukkillaya
  • Benjamin Kulas
  • Anish Kumar
  • Kiana Lacroix
  • Chloe LaFleur
  • Hailey Lancaster
  • Stephen Landry
  • Antonio Vince Miguel Lansang
  • Timothy Lau
  • Seongjun Lee
  • Kara Lehnert
  • Charles Li
  • Lauren Lim
  • Samuel Littrell
  • Lydia Loverin
  • Liam Lustberg
  • Anika Malayappan
  • Amy Maldonado
  • Sanjana Malla
  • Karelyn Malliet
  • Zachary Mallol
  • Nathan Manaker
  • Alexander Manning
  • Thomas Manning
  • Greer Marshall
  • Shayley Martin
  • Tamya Matthews
  • Hayden McCuan
  • Jacob McDaniel
  • Risha Mehta
  • Audrey Melton
  • Joel Miles
  • Kate Miller
  • Vivian Miller
  • Sanat Mishra
  • Aditya Mishra
  • Akshaj Mishra
  • Keith Mokry
  • Carson Monks
  • Dwight Moore, Jr.
  • Rena Morrell
  • Chythanya Murali
  • Suzanna Murawski
  • Navya Murugesan
  • Tejas Muthusamy
  • Lokesh Nagineni
  • Isabella Neubauer
  • Diana Nguyen
  • Connor Niederbuhl
  • Buddy Noorlander
  • Dylan O’Connor
  • Dylan Olster
  • Jinwon Pae
  • Shreyas Parab
  • Anika Patel
  • Aashka Patel
  • Shiv Patel
  • Zander Patent
  • Nikhita Pathapati
  • Mary Joy Li-Ann Patricio
  • Syamantak Payra
  • Samuel Pereles
  • Ethan Perrins
  • Victoria Phillips
  • Abigail Pittman
  • Spencer Pogue
  • Mary Polking
  • Shirlyn Prabahar
  • Matthew Prus
  • Megan Rabe
  • Sibani Ram
  • Keshav Ramesh
  • Aparajita Rao
  • Jhanvi Ravishankar
  • Amna Raza
  • Manasvi Reddy
  • Zander Reed
  • Nolan Reed
  • Hadrian Reeves
  • Brian Reinhart
  • Madeline Rickert
  • Amber Robinson
  • Mitchell Robson
  • Kellen Rodriguez
  • Gabrielle Rubio
  • Jade Samanta
  • Daniel Samraj
  • Kendra Scace
  • Emily Schneider
  • Teddy Schoenfeld
  • Jensen Schram
  • Chase Seals
  • Nicole Seman
  • Neha Seshadri
  • Cole Shafer-Ray
  • Kush Sharma
  • Harshita Shet
  • Vanya Shivashankar
  • Isabelle Simmons
  • Grange Simpson
  • Anil Singh
  • Nikita Singh
  • Devina Singh
  • Keerthana Sivathasan
  • Anna Snider
  • Eesha Sohail
  • Julianna Sonnik
  • Anastasia Spahr
  • Kodai Speich
  • Connor Spencer
  • Ryan Spencer
  • Nicholas Stark
  • Ansun Sujoe
  • Jennifer Tennant
  • Manav Thadani
  • Claire Thomas
  • Kasey Torres
  • Rebecca Tran
  • Anna Tran
  • George Triplett
  • Lucy Tumavicus
  • Srivinay Tummarakota
  • Anna Turner
  • Lucas Urbanski
  • Ankita Vadiala
  • Ashwin Veeramani
  • Medha Venigalla
  • Gokul Venkatachalam
  • Buck Walling
  • Xi Yuan Wang
  • Katharine Wang
  • Meryl Warpula
  • Alotus Wei
  • Hudson Wellin
  • Aron Wiener
  • Peyton Wiewel
  • Jessie Williams
  • Jacob Williamson
  • Alexandria Wilt
  • Mary Wynne
  • Victor Xiao
  • Eileen Xue

* Winner
** Runner-Up