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Students battle it out for a spell Four will advance to district bee after winning at their schools BY TABATHA STEWART SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
Students from Running Creek Elementary, Singing Hills Elementary, Elizabeth Middle School and Legacy Academy held their school spelling bees in December, and four students, one from each school, will advance to the district spelling bee on Jan. 14. Winners from that competition will go on to compete at the state level. The Elizabeth Middle School competition turned into a marathon spell-off, with the final two contestants competing a whopping 57 rounds, before Sierra Schulthies, 13, won the battle by spelling the word “policy.” The competition advanced beyond the words students had been given to study, and officials used a secondary list of words the students had not seen before. The second-place winner, Mylie Hicks, misspelled a word, and Schulthies was given the championship word, which she spelled correctly and took home the first place prize. “I was a little nervous, but got more nervous when we ran out of words on the list and had to go to the list we didn’t get to study for,” said Schulthies. SEE SPELL, P4
Elizabeth Middle School students Mylie Hicks, Sierra Schulthies and Lacy Antinora were the top three spellers in the school spelling bee. COURTESY OF ELIZABETH SCHOOL DISTRICT
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