Katie Kerwin McCrimmon
Katie Kerwin McCrimmon (born 1965 in Denver, Colorado) is a journalist and former reporter/analyst for ESPN. She won the 1979 National Spelling Bee, representing the Rocky Mountain News, by spelling the word "maculature”.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
McCrimmon's spelling bee win won her a full scholarship to Colorado College, where she graduated with a degree in journalism in 1987.[2] After college, she began to work for the Rocky Mountain News and served as their Washington, D.C. correspondent until 1996 and continued at the paper until it closed in 2009.[7][8] In the early 1990s, CNN began broadcasting the National Spelling Bee and invited her to be a commentator.[2] ESPN2 began broadcasting the contest in 1994, and McCrimmon became their commentator until 2005.[2][9]
She made a cameo appearance in the 2006 film Akeelah and the Bee.[10]
Katie is currently a writer for UCHealth.[11]
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References
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- ↑ Scripps National Spelling Bee list of Champions and Their Winning Words Template:Webarchive
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- ↑ Reader's Direst 1980 Almanac and Yearbook, p.690 (1980) (Template:ISBN) ("Katie Kerwin, 13, of Denver, won the National Spelling Bee by spelling "maculature" correctly")
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- ↑ Trinkle, Barrie et al. How to Spell Like a Champ, p.98, 156 (2006) (Template:ISBN)
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- ↑ IMDB Full Cast of Akeelah and the Bee
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External links
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