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Missouri, Kansas spellers knocked out of Bee

Posted at 10:41 AM, May 25, 2016
and last updated 2016-05-25 19:03:19-04

More than 280 spellers are taking part in the 2016 Scripps National Spelling Bee, with a respectable showing from Missouri and Kansas.

Both states were admirably represented by the 2015 co-winners, Vanya Shivashankar of Olathe, Kan. and Gokul Venkatachalam of Chesterfield, Mo.

  • You can keep up with the action on Twitter by following @ScrippsBee, which is tweeting each contestant's turn in the spotlight. Use the hasthag #spellingbee
  • You also can watch on ESPN3 on online at ESPN.go.com (see schedule below)

MISSOURI (each each speller has a contestant number) 

  132 Kael Miranda | Columbia Daily Tribune, Columbia
  133 Sophia Noel | Hoffman Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City
  134 Samuel L. Cheslik | Raymore-Peculiar School District, Peculiar
  135 Brayden Armes | Three Rivers Community College, Poplar Bluff
  136 Lily Cassidy| Sedalia Spelling Bee Collaborative, Sedalia
  137 Robert Bryan Esposito | St. Joseph News-Press, St. Joseph
  138 Aanjaneyaa Natarajan Venkataraman | St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis
  279 Peyton Wiewel | Lakeview Middle School, Kansas City
  284 Deuce Ditton | Rolla Middle School, Rolla

KANSAS (each each speller has a contestant number) 

  90 Lawrence L. Zhang | Hays Daily News, Hays
  91 Amrith Mathew Samuel | The Olathe News, Olathe
  92 Gracie Elizabeth Schroeder | The Topeka Capital-Journal, Topeka

 

None of the local competitors advanced to the final round on May 25. 

 

 

Schedule:

Preliminaries (Round Two)
Wednesday, May 25
8:00 – 11:45 a.m. EDT

Preliminaries (Round Three)
Wednesday, May 25
1:15 – 4:45 p.m. EDT

The Announcement of Finalists will immediately follow the conclusion of Round Three and will be broadcast live on ESPN3.

Finals
Thursday, May 26
10:00 a.m. EDT

Finals, continued
Thursday, May 26
8:00 p.m. EDT