Spelling Bee Finals Photos, December 7, 2009

Congratulations to Wilson Southerland and all our finalists. Photos by Eric Walton.




















All (well, most) of the Finalists!


The top three!


Winner Wilson Southerland!

Congratulations to Season Ten Winner Wilson Southerland

Congratulations to Season Ten Winner Wilson Southerland, who spelled twelve words correctly at Monday's Season 10 Finals! Ben O'Donnell took second place and Lilli Heard took third in a very difficult finals! Professional-quality photographs were taken and will be posted soon.

Congratulations as well to all our Finalists (each of whom placed in the top three during a regular-season bee):

Trent Williams
Jenny Brown
Jonathan Lill
Lilli Heard
Wilson Southerland
Carolyn D'Aquila
David Zheng
Octavia Silva
Ben O'Donnell

A few words spelled by our competitors include imprimis, overslaugh, gramineous, avenaceous, moue, materfamilias, coetaneous, dermatoglyphics, quodlibet, moirologist, and schwerpunkt.