Zaila Avant-garde's on the roller coaster of a lifetime after winning the National Spelling Bee, and her next stop just might be 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. -- we just hope it goes smoother than her NYC visit.
We got the newly-crowned champ and her mother, Alma Heard, Wednesday after landing at LAX, and -- like most of us -- our photog was duly impressed by the 14-year-old wonderkid who just became the first Black American teen to win the event.
THE 🐐 HAS ARRIVED!
— ESPYS (@ESPYS) July 10, 2021
Scripps National Spelling Bee winner Zaila Avant-garde (@Basketballasart) is having herself a pretty good week ❤️ pic.twitter.com/NamCGsF3Pg
We had to ask if she was getting the same perks as most sports champions ... namely, an invitation to the White House. You gotta see her response ... Zaila's first thought was to be super-considerate of President Biden's time, but then mom revealed something might already be in the works. #Fingerscrossed.
Hey, she's already getting invited all over the place -- it's Hollywood this week, but last week she was at the ESPYs in NYC, and Zaila told how things went a little haywire there.
Hey, she spelled "murraya" last week to take the Spelling Bee title ... so "lost" is a cinch.