With the correct spelling of obsecration, Orange County has a top speller for 2025.
Students representing schools from around the county battled it out in several rounds Saturday morning at the Orange County Department of Education headquarters, but with the right combination of consonants and vowels, Sydney Tran secured the win and her place in the Scripps National Spelling Bee this May.
Reid McCabe of Cabrillo Point Academy competes in the fourth round during the 62nd Annual Orange County Spelling Bee, final round, Saturday, March 1, 2025 at the Orange County Department of Education. (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)
Joshua Richardson of Rancho San Joaquin Middle School competes during the 62nd Annual Orange County Spelling Bee, final round, Saturday, March 1, 2025 at the Orange County Department of Education. (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)
Ishani Magoon of Lakeside Middle School competes during the 62nd Annual Orange County Spelling Bee, final round, Saturday, March 1, 2025 at the Orange County Department of Education. (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)
Isabella Nguyen of Walt Disney Elementary School competes during the 62nd Annual Orange County Spelling Bee, final round, Saturday, March 1, 2025 at the Orange County Department of Education. (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)
Nikita Pramod competes during the 62nd Annual Orange County Spelling Bee, final round, Saturday, March 1, 2025 at the Orange County Department of Education. (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)
Family and friends watch during the 62nd Annual Orange County Spelling Bee, final round, Saturday, March 1, 2025 at the Orange County Department of Education. (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)
Aden Nunes of Fairmount Schools in San Juan Capistrano during the forth round of the 62nd Annual Orange County Spelling Bee, final round, Saturday, March 1, 2025 at the Orange County Department of Education. Nunes eventually took second place. (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)
Aidan Stapf of Saints Simon & Jude Catholic School competes during the 62nd Annual Orange County Spelling Bee, final round, Saturday, March 1, 2025 at the Orange County Department of Education. (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)
Krystine Nguyen tries to visualize the word given to her to spell as she uses her finger to trace the word on the back of her name tag during the 62nd Annual Orange County Spelling Bee, final round, Saturday, March 1, 2025 at the Orange County Department of Education. Krystine’s sister, Katelyn Nguyen was last year’s champion. (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)
Adelyn Haskins of St. Margaret’s Episcopal School stands on her toes to reach the microphone during the 62nd Annual Orange County Spelling Bee, final round, Saturday, March 1, 2025 at the Orange County Department of Education. (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)
Burhanuddin Zakir of Fairmount Schools in Anaheim competes during the 62nd Annual Orange County Spelling Bee, final round, Saturday, March 1, 2025 at the Orange County Department of Education. (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)
Virginia Reischl, one of the judges, smiles as a student competes in the 62nd Annual Orange County Spelling Bee, final round, Saturday, March 1, 2025 at the Orange County Department of Education. (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)
Sophie Liu of Sierra Vista Middle School competes during the 62nd Annual Orange County Spelling Bee, final round, Saturday, March 1, 2025 at the Orange County Department of Education. (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)
Thirteen-year-old Sydney Tran of El Rancho Charter School in Anaheim, winner of the 62nd Annual Orange County Spelling Bee, Saturday, March 1, 2025. (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)
Aden Nunes of Fairmount Schools in San Juan Capistrano takes second place after getting knocked out with the word “par excellence” during the 62nd Annual Orange County Spelling Bee, final round, Saturday, March 1, 2025 at the Orange County Department of Education. (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)
Adelyn Haskins of St. Margaret’s Episcopal School stands on her toes to reach the microphone during the 62nd Annual Orange County Spelling Bee, final round, Saturday, March 1, 2025 at the Orange County Department of Education. (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)
Lin Everett of Rancho San Joaquin Middle School in Irvine takes 3rd place in the 62nd Annual Orange County Spelling Bee, Saturday, March 1, 2025. (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)
Thirteen-year-old Sydney Tran of El Rancho Charter School in Anaheim, winner of the 62nd Annual Orange County Spelling Bee, Saturday, March 1, 2025. (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)
A family member of Krystine Nguyen takes a photo as she competes in the 62nd Annual Orange County Spelling Bee, final round, Saturday, March 1, 2025 at the Orange County Department of Education. Krystine’s sister, Katelyn Nguyen was last year’s champion. (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)
Thirteen-year-old Sydney Tran of El Rancho Charter School in Anaheim smiles after correctly spelling the last word winning the 62nd Annual Orange County Spelling Bee in the 14th round with the word “obsecration”, Saturday, March 1, 2025. (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)
Thirteen-year-old Sydney Tran of El Rancho Charter School in Anaheim as she correctly spells the last word winning the 62nd Annual Orange County Spelling Bee in the 14th round with the word “obsecration”, Saturday, March 1, 2025. (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)
Show Caption1 of 21Reid McCabe of Cabrillo Point Academy competes in the fourth round during the 62nd Annual Orange County Spelling Bee, final round, Saturday, March 1, 2025 at the Orange County Department of Education. (Photo by Steven Georges, Contributing Photographer)
ExpandTran, 13, is a seventh-grader at El Rancho Charter School in the Orange Unified School District.
Aden Nunez, a seventh-grader from the San Juan Capistrano campus of the Fairmont Schools, spelled his way to second place, going several rounds with Tran before going out on par excellence.
Everett Lin, from Rancho San Joaquin Middle School in the Irvine Unified School District, took third.
Tran will be representing Orange County in the 100th spelling of the national bee, which begins May 27 in Washington, D.C. Students can compete through the eighth grade.
And to save a trip to the dictionary, obsecration is “a supplicatory prayer mentioning in its appeal things or events held to be sacred.”
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