Moore headed to national spelling bee

By Anna Noel

The Cuero Record

Cole Moore, a Cuero junior high student, will soon be competing in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Moore won the school, county, and region bees, which put him on track to go to the Scripps Bee in Washington D.C. from May 28 to June 4.

“I was kind of surprised,” Moore said, “I didn’t think I was ever going to win in the five years I’d been doing it, but I guess Saturday turned out in my favor.

“In the county ones there are two winners and they’re co-champions so there isn’t a real, true winner, it’s just two of them, and they go on to regionals. At regionals, there’s only one winner, not two.”

“There’s only 209 that get to go to Washington D.C.” Moore’s mother added. “So that’s, to me, pretty special.”

At the Scripps National Spelling Bee there will be three rounds, the quarterfinals, the semifinals, and the finals.

“You have to make it through each level,” Moore explained, “and the semifinals is the one where you get to appear on TV. The finals is the one where you don’t really have a list to study, it’s just the dictionary."

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