For the second year in a row, the top speller at Indian Lake Middle School is Grace Johnson.
After 18 rounds of intense competition, the eighth-grader spelled “intubated” to become the 2022 ILMS Spelling Bee Champion. She also won the bee as a seventh-grader in 2021.
Fifth-grader Starr Leonhart took the runner-up spot.
In total, 20 other students who were all chosen from Language Arts classes participated in the bee. Students were provided spelling words from the Scripps National Spelling Bee List.
Grace and Starr will advance to the Logan County Spelling Bee in January at the Holland Theatre.
Grace becomes the first ILMS student in recent years to win the Spelling Bee in back-to-back years.