Julia Denniss of Dunwoody participates in the 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bee

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This girl is the first ever to represent GA 3 times in the National Spelling Bee, but you would never know it from her results there. She has only made the top 20 once, and twice failed to make the top 40 (including this year). She hasn't really done any better there than anyone else from GA. In fact, in the late '90s, an eighth-grader from Warner Robins placed fourth at the NSB in his very first (and only) try. Miss Denniss is obviously a good speller, but she seems a bit overrated to me.