Fayette's top spellers headed for district competition

Fayette's top spellers

headed for district competition

Chris Cool,

an eighth-grader at J.C. Booth Middle School, has won the Fayette County

Spelling Bee Championship.

Cool, along

with first runner-up Tommy Smith, a seventh-grader at Fayette Middle School,

will represent the Fayette County School System in the district spelling

bee March 3 at 10 a.m. at Arbor Station Elementary School in Douglasville.

In addition

to being great spellers, both students are involved in a variety of extracurricular

activities.

Cool is a member

of the J.C. Booth Middle School chorus and academic bowl. In his spare

time, he enjoys wrestling, Karate, reading, playing with the computer

and jogging.

Smith plays

the saxophone in the Fayette Middle School band. He also enjoys wrestling

and geography. Smith was the 1999 Geography Bee winner for East Fayette

Elementary School.