This is the 95th year of the competition, and those in charge of making it all come together said this year's Bee could be the busiest one yet.
Trying to wrangle 231 spellers into the right place at the right time might sound like a lot to handle."I'm a ringleader for them," she said."I kind of consider myself to be the 'Bee Mom.'"
"Yes, I get them to their interviews. Yes, I help them get their makeup done with the makeup people and the hair people," she said."We get to have a lot of fun, but my main role for that day is to be their liaison.""I want to be the person that smiles the most from Scripps and is present to help them do whatever they need to do," Haggerty said.
"I think about how meaningful Bee Week was for me as a kid, and we're trying to add more and more of that meaning to the work that we do at Bee Week," said Corrie Loeffler, the Spelling Bee's new executive director.Loeffler is herself a former speller at the competition. Haggerty said that comes with the territory, and it is one she plans to help all the spellers navigate together.
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