Wakulla County can watch as their own Trevor Waters takes on other champion spellers of the area in the 2006 Tallahassee Democrat Big Bend Regional Spelling Bee.  Waters 13 years old and is in the 7th grade at Riversprings Middle School. Trevor is an honor roll student and enjoys playing video games and baseball.

Waters represented Wakulla County against the reigning champion spellers from 10 other counties in the Big Bend area in the competition on Saturday February 25th at WFSU-TV studios.  He sailed through the first 6 rounds, confidently spelling the words:  hundredth, mesa, hydrate, snooker, exterminate, plague.  In the 7th round, he misspelled the word “repetition.”  During that same round, 5 other students were knocked out of the competition leaving Sneads High School eighth-grader Ryan Pilcher the winner.

Pilcher will go on to participate in the Scripts-Howard National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. from May 31st to June 1st.  Until then, you can see the telecast of the Regional Spelling Bee multiple times on 4fsu (Comcast Channel 4 in Gadsden, Leon and Wakulla Counties).

The schedule for March is a follows:

Thursday, March 2nd at 7pm EST
Friday, March 3rd at 9pm EST
Monday, March 6th at 6:30pm EST
Tuesday, March 7th at 6pm EST
Friday, March 10th at 7:30pm EST
Tuesday, March 14th at 7pm EST
Thursday, March 16th at 8:30pm EST
Monday, March 20th at 7pm EST
Saturday, March 25th at 6:30pm EST
Thursday, March 30th at 7pm EST

In addition to Waters and Pilcher, other participants in the Spelling Bee included:

Name		Grade		County		School
Laina Moyer		5th		Dixie		Old Town Elementary School
Ryan Cooper		6th		Franklin		Carrabelle Middle/High School
Candace Howard		7th		Gadsden		Crossroad Academy Charter School
William Blanton, II		7th		Gilchrist		Suwannee River Valley Christian Academy
Lucas Ferguson		8th		Grady		Whigham School
John Stephens		8th		Jefferson		Aucilla Christian Academy
Rebecca Bradley		6th		Leon		Swift Creek Middle School
Kelby Barber		8th		Levy		Bronson Middle/High School
James Kennedy		5th		Taylor		Taylor County Elementary School

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