Nationwide Spelling Bee champion Zaila Avant-garde combines her unbelievable spelling and basketball abilities

Ever surprise what you have been doing together with your life? Properly, if you have not, you are undoubtedly about to.

14-year-old Zaila Avant-garde, the 2021 Scripps Nationwide Spelling Bee champion, appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Reside! with visitor host Phoebe Robinson to indicate off her epic abilities. However spelling is not her solely forte, it appears.

Zaila also can dribble a number of basketballs at a time and is a Guinness World Document holder, in addition. However can she spell polysyllabic phrases whereas dribbling basketballs on the identical time? You wager she will be able to.

First, she deftly manages to maintain three balls bouncing whereas spelling “machiavellian” — no imply feat with out the addition of ball sports activities. Then, simply to make issues much more difficult, Zaila was requested to dribble six balls directly whereas spelling “amaryllis.” Simply to prime every little thing off and make you’re feeling like an underachiever, Invoice Murray stopped by (she’d referenced the actor simply earlier than spelling her profitable phrase “murraya” on the Spelling Bee) and challenged Zaila to steadiness on a foam curler whereas dribbling three balls and spelling the phrase “portmanteau.”

She nailed it!