Free Will Baptist Christian School 8th Grade Student Wins 49th Annual Territorial Spelling Bee
- Staff Consortium
- March 25, 2022
Free Will Baptist Christian School 8th grade student Shadya Coureur, who stepped onto the competitive spelling scene for the first time this school year, emerged as the winner of the 49th Virgin Islands Territorial Spelling Bee, the V.I. Dept. of Education has announced. Who won after correctly spelling the word bumptious in round 18 of the annual spelling contest, held Thursday at the Free Will Baptist Christian School on St. Croix. According to the release, following the elimination of the nine other spellers, Coureur went head-to-head with Micah Dominique, a seventh-grade student at the New Testament Academy Inc. on St. Thomas, until he misspelled the word “colic” and she followed with the correct spelling of the adjective that means “presumptuously, obtusely, and often noisily self-assertive: obtrusive.” “I’m honestly surprised [that I won],” she said. “I didn’t know I won until they said, ‘congratulations’.” Although Coureur is one of the newest Spelling Bee participants an...
