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    El Rancho 7th-grader spellers her way to represent OC in national bee
    • March 2, 2025

    With the correct spelling of obsecration, Orange County has a top speller for 2025.

    Students representing schools from around the county battled it out in several rounds Saturday morning at the Orange County Department of Education headquarters, but with the right combination of consonants and vowels, Sydney Tran secured the win and her place in the Scripps National Spelling Bee this May.

    Tran, 13, is a seventh-grader at El Rancho Charter School in the Orange Unified School District.

    Aden Nunez, a seventh-grader from the San Juan Capistrano campus of the Fairmont Schools, spelled his way to second place, going several rounds with Tran before going out on par excellence.

    Everett Lin, from Rancho San Joaquin Middle School in the Irvine Unified School District, took third.

    Tran will be representing Orange County in the 100th spelling of the national bee, which begins May 27 in Washington, D.C. Students can compete through the eighth grade.

    And to save a trip to the dictionary, obsecration is “a supplicatory prayer mentioning in its appeal things or events held to be sacred.”

     Orange County Register 

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