Nupur Lala

Nupur Lala

Nupur Lala (born 1985) was the champion of the 1999 Scripps National Spelling Bee (as speller # 165), spelling "" to win. She won against David Lewandowski, a speller from Indiana who misspelled "opsimath". Her participation in the 1999 bee was portrayed on the 2002 film "Spellbound".

All of the words she spelled were:

*
*
* (with which she asked the judges whether it related to a Corolla)
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
* (the winning word)

Life before the Bee

Nupur was born in Syracuse, New York [ [http://www.sptimes.com/2003/06/05/Floridian/Spelling_s_busy_bee.shtml "St. Petersburg Times"] ] . She attended Greensboro Day School (Elementary School) in North Carolina where the students would refer to her as the "Human Dictionary."

Life after the Bee

She enrolled at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 2003 to study brain and cognitive sciences, and graduated in 2007. She was once offered a chance to appear on an MTV reality show, but she decided against it as "too invasive." [ [http://www.umich.edu/news/MT/04/Spring04/story.html?nuperspell "University of Michigan News"] ]

Notes

ee also

*List of Scripps National Spelling Bee champions


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