At age 11, Aliyah Alpert of Prescott has already qualified for the state spelling bee for the fourth time in her life! abc15
PRESCOTT — At age 11, Aliyah Alpert is already a veteran of the Arizona Spelling Bee. She has been competing since the age of 6, spelling words like"edelweiss" and"duplicitous" by the age of 8. She still remembers her first competition.
Alpert is now one of the top contenders in Arizona's annual state spelling bee, which will be held this Saturday, March 19, at the Madison Center for the Arts in Phoenix. It's the first time in three years the competition will be held in person. She finished fourth in her last two state competitions, and the older she gets, it becomes more nerve-racking.
Alpert is homeschooled, and true to her Prescott roots, she also enjoys horseback riding, and playing the fiddle. She has even posted videos of herself riding a horse, while playing the fiddle and spelling words at the same time. She prepares by studying lists of words, and paying attention to word origin and alternative pronunciations for clues. Even so, like every speller, at some point she gets a word she doesn't know.
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