"I went to the ESPYS, and there were a whole bunch of people there," Avant-garde said. "The [women's basketball] coach of Stanford University, Tara [VanDerveer], was talking to me, and Stanford ...

Avant-garde's Instagram is rife with videos of her basketball mastery, and she told CNN shortly after her spelling bee victory that one aspiration of hers is to coach in the NBA. The NBA would be ...

I’m really trying to go somewhere with it. Basketball is what I do,” Avant-garde told the Associated Press. “Spelling is really a side thing I do. It’s like a little hors d’oeuvre.

Super-speller Zaila Avant-garde is one special girl ... that Zaila had been awarded a full scholarship to Sports Academy, a basketball training center co-founded by the late Kobe Bryant.

Zaila Avant ... play basketball at Harvard University, play in the NBA, become a head coach in the NBA and then work for NASA. Zhorie'l Tapo, a seventh-grader at L.J. Alleman Fine Arts Academy ...

Congratulations to our record holder Zaila Avant-garde who won the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee last night! Zaila holds three basketball dribbling records and is looking to set more - she ...

As Avant-garde’s celebratory moment went viral, the world started quickly learning how she was able to navigate the spelling champion so smoothly under pressure: She’s a star basketball player.

Videos of Avant-garde's extraordinary basketball skills, as well as her spelling bee accomplishments, can be found on her Instagram profile, and in the Guinness World Records feature video ...

(AP) - This year's National Spelling Bee champion Zaila Avant-garde has earned even more recognition for her athletic prowess than her achievements in spelling. She is a basketball prodigy who ...