Nupur Lala
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Nupur Lala (born 1985 in Syracuse, New York[1]) was the champion of the 1999 Scripps National Spelling Bee (as speller # 165), spelling "logorrhea" to win. Nupur won the bee with the word "logorrhea" against David Lewandowski, a speller from Indiana who misspelled "opsimath." All of the words she spelled were:
- logorrhea (the winning word)
[edit] Life after the Bee
She enrolled at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 2003 to study brain and cognitive sciences. She was also offered a chance to appear on an MTV reality show, but decided against it as "too invasive."[2]
| Preceded by Jody-Anne Maxwell |
Scripps National Spelling Bee winner 1999 |
Succeeded by George Abraham Thampy |
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