I've said it before and I'll say it again, the pressure on these 11-14 year-old adolescent participants in this nationally televised spelling competition is seismic.
Unlike adult pro athletes, these competitors truly wear their emotions on their young, unpretentious faces. Every round brings on displayed emotions of fear, relief, triumph, and heartwrenching-to-watch failure.
Scripps runner-up
And the brutal rounds of spelling challenges keep coming until there is one competitor left standing, or Scripps runs out of words to spell.
It is a competition not for the faint-hearted parent to watch, which are most of us loving parents. But what we suffer in watching, we overcome while rooting for every young participant taking on nerve-shattering, earth-shaking words.
So give it up for winner Bruhat Soma, and for all the brave Spelling Bee participants. And parents, give yourselves a round of applause for making it through however many rounds.
Unlike Baseball, "There is Crying in Spelling Bees."
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