Zaila Avant-Garde Biography

Zaila Avant-garde (born February 9, 2007) is a juggler, basketball player, and speller from the United States. She was awarded the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 2021. She is the very 1st African-American finalist and the 2nd Black winner, following Jamaica's Jody-Anne Maxwell. Avant-garde, the daughter of Jawara Spacetime, was born on February 9, 2007 in Harvey, Louisiana. He picked her surname as a tribute to John Coltrane.Her role models include Malala Yousafzai, Coco Guaff, and, Serena Williams.  Steph Curry, Diana Taurasi, James Harden, Kevin Durant, as well as Maya Moore are among her basketball idols. Avant-garde Spelling Bee advanced to the nationals in the 2019 Bee. Cole Shafer-Ray, a retired Scripps contestant who also mentored runner-up Chaitra Thummala, is her mentor.   Often spellers see words as a series of letters to memorise; Zaila sees each word as a story.... She noticed not only the spelling of each word, but also its complete storyline and what its historical background was, what roots it came from, and the accurate orthographic logic of why every letter of each and every word had to be precisely what it was. Cole Shafer-Ray She managed to win the 2021 contest by correctly spelling murraya. Only the eleven finalists participated in person, in a meeting that lasted less than two hours, due to global epidemic concerns. 1st prize is $50,000 in prizes and cash. She is the contest's 1st African American winner, having been predated by MacNolia Cox, who made it to the finals in the 1936 version. Basketball Basketball is more than just a game to me.... I'm really trying to make it work. Basketball is my passion. Spelling is something I do on the side. It's similar to a small hors d'ouevre. But basketball is the main course. Avant-garde Zaila She is regarded as one of the top 8th basketball prospects in the United States. Avant-garde holds 3 Guinness World Records in basketball and is a co-holder of another. Her parents had given her a replica of the Guinness Book of World Records for her eighteenth birthday, which ignited her ambition On November 14, 2019, she reached a world record of 231 bounce juggles in 1 minute (three basketballs). She also set a new record for the most basketball bounces in thirty seconds that day (307). She set the record for the most bounce juggles in 1 minute on November 2, 2020, utilising four basketballs (255). She holds the record for the most basketballs squirted around one time (six), which she set on January 26, 2021 (tying Joseph Odhiambo's August 2000 history). Juggling Avant-garde took silver in the Rookies Division at the 2020 International Jugglers' Affiliation championship (18U). She is a skillful bike commuter who can juggle as well as do cycling.

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