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And the Bay Area dominates your reality TV scene YET AGAIN!!! Danville's own Evan O'Dorney, sponsored by the proud-as-punch Contra Costa Times, wins this year's spelling bee on the word "serrefine," which is not a brand of drinking water but rather, is a small set of forceps used for clamping blood vessels.
O'Dorney is home-schooled (but affiliated with a local charter school, and takes classes at various local community colleges), came in fifth in the regional MathCounts contest, has a black belt in karate, and loves to play the piano. But the thing we are totally the most into is that his dad is a BART employee, proudly sporting his BART polo on national TV!
The color commentators on ABC were like, "His dad works for a local Bay Area public transportation line -- and we bet they're all on the E train for Evan!" We were like, "There is no E line on the BART. BART designates its lines by final destination. They should be pulling for the Pittsburg/Bay Point line if they want to support the O'Dorneys."
Check out Mr. O'Dorney's BART t-shirt in the AP picture above, by Jacqueline Martin.
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Just saw the recap on Ch 11 local news. This kid rocks!
Love the Spelling Bee, hate the French words! I thought the post-victory interview was hilarious, as our hometown hero pretty much dissed the Spelling Bee, calling it a simple exercise of memorization, as opposed to math and music. I could feel Stu of ESPN and the rest of the Spelling Bee folks cringe. Awkward moments are great!