She is the First African-American National Spelling Bee Winner!

14-year-old Zaila Avant-garde says it’s the “roots” of words that she focuses on in her training and it appears to have paid off!

She tells HLN’s Robin Meade that there isn’t really a secret to her success, “I just studied really hard.”

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