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Navajo County top spellers announced

Tribune Staff

| March 1, 2022

Printed in the March 2, 2022 edition

Photo courtesy of the Navajo County Superintendent of SchoolsThe Navajo County Spelling Bee was held Feb. 16 at the Snowflake High School auditorium. With 20 spellers ready to go, and after an hour of competition it came down to the final round with the winning word of “deserter.” The champion is Snowflake Junior High School seventh grader Gia Goaziou (center), runner-up is Blue Ridge Junior High School eighth grader Rain Dimaliwat (right) and third place went to Winslow Junior High School seventh grader Aayden Roland (left). Goaziou will represent Navajo County in the State Spelling Bee to be held March 19 in Phoenix.