Competition🐝

The 2022 Champion Spelling Bee is a competition designed for spellers preparing to compete at the highest level at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Spellers of all levels of experience are invited to enter.

Streaming📺

Participant Eligibility✔️

All participants in the 2022 Champion Spelling Bee must meet the following requirements:

• The speller must be in a Grade no earlier than Grade 3 & no later than Grade 8 in the 2022-2023 school year
• The speller must register to participate no later than Friday, August 27

Security🔒

The 2022 CSB will be taking strict & thorough measures to protect the integrity of the competition.

All spellers will be required to follow well-defined anti-cheating guidelines at all times — a violation of which will result in elimination.

Official Source & Rules📕

The official source of the 2022 CSB is Merriam-Webster Unabridged Online [unabridged.merriam-webster.com]. Beyond this, there is no specific study list for the competition.

The 2022 CSB will be a spelling-only competition. No vocabulary will be used.

Meet the Organizers 🎤

The executive organizers of the 2022 Champion Spelling Bee are Akshita Balaji & Cole Shafer-Ray.

Akshita Balaji is a former speller who attended the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 2019 & 2021 — placing 21st globally in 2021.

Her long list of spelling accomplishments also includes being the Runner-Up of the 2021 North South Foundation Senior National Spelling Bee, and placing 3rd & 5th in the 2020 & 2021 SpellPundit Senior National Spelling Bee, respectively.

Akshita is currently a coach. In 2022, as a resource to aspiring spellers, Akshita created the site queenbeespelling.com.

Cole Shafer-Ray is a spelling coach with 5 years of coaching experience.

Cole participated in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 2013, 2014, & 2015, and was the Runner-Up of the competition in 2015.

Every year, Cole works with a few dedicated spellers aiming to succeed at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Cole has coached several top performers at Scripps, including five Top 5 finishers at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 2021 & 2022.

Contact✉️

For all 2022 CSB-related inquiries, please contact 2022championspellingbee@gmail.com.