National Spelling Bee 2007

The 2007 National Spelling Bee Winner is a boy named Evan Odorney. This marks two out of three years that a Californian has won the National Spelling Bee.

The final four were all in their final years of qualification. The boys were big 1-5 favorite to win heading into the competition.

A record 286 spellers came into the Scripps National Spelling Bee this year. This also became a competition between the USA vs Canada in the end as Evan Odorney of the US went up against Canadian Nate Gartke.

The Scripps National Spelling Bee (formerly known as the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee and commonly referred to simply as the National Spelling Bee) is a highly competitive annual spelling bee run on a not-for-profit basis by The E. W. Scripps Company, held in the ballroom at the Grand Hyatt Washington hotel in Washington, D.C. The competition is open to the winners of sponsored regional spelling bees held mostly throughout the United States. Contestants from Canada, Mexico, Jamaica, New Zealand, and the Bahamas have participated in the Scripps National Spelling Bee as well.

California's Evan O'Dorney, who won the national Spelling Bee, received a $35,000 prize, a $5,000 scholarship, a $2,500 savings bond and a set of reference books.