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What were you doing at 14?
Picking popcorn out of your braces and updating your AIM away message?
Yelling at your mom for getting the wrong trifold poster board?
Googling hair in armpits how long is normal?
Well, eighth-graderZaila Avant-gardehas you beat and not just because her last name is literally avant-garde.
Also, if you Google murraya, theres a celebratory little Easter egg.
Avant-garde snuck her own little Easter egg into the competition, making aBill Murray referencebefore winning the bee.
Setting records is nothing new to Avant-garde.
Avant-gardes recent win is even more impressive considering she only started competitively spelling two years ago.
Whats next for the 14-year-old?
But first, shell finish ninth grade.
