National spelling bee champions reveal challenges, growing pains, and how the contest changed their adult life: «Oh, I never stayed fresh»

Joanne Lagatta arrived at the University of Wisconsin in 1995 with impeccable academic record and a achievement in his summary that he did not like to speak, but that no other student on the Madison campus could claim: Scripps National Spelling Bee. The winner of the bees in 1991 at the age of 13, Lagatta, […]