{"id":333663,"date":"2026-05-27T00:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T00:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333663\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T00:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T00:37:12","slug":"two-central-valley-students-advance-at-scripps-national-spelling-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333663\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Central Valley students advance at Scripps National Spelling Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, May 26, 2026 11:48PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Two Central Valley students advance at Scripps National Spelling Bee\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Two Central Valley students remain in contention at the Scripps National Spelling Bee after advancing through the opening rounds Tuesday in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">12-year-old Warren Li of Fresno and 13-year-old Nicole Lopez of Visalia both made it past the preliminaries and are still competing for the national title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Another Central Valley participant, Akshara Thummala of Merced, was eliminated during the early rounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The three-day competition continues on Wednesday with quarterfinal and semifinal rounds before concluding Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The last champion from the Central Valley was Ananya Vinay, who won the national title in 2017. Her brother also competed in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, May 26, 2026 11:48PM FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Two Central Valley students remain in contention at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[138076,109864,512,112,114,113,138073,138075,137926,138074,294,5386,138072,514],"class_list":["post-333663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-138076","tag-akshara-thummala","tag-central-valley","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-nicole-lopez","tag-preliminaries","tag-scripps-national-spelling-bee","tag-spelling-competition","tag-timely","tag-visalia","tag-warren-li","tag-washington-d-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}