Scripps National Spelling Bee semifinals 2014: live stream, start time, TV info and more
By Josh Sanchez
After the preliminaries rounds took place on Wednesday under closed quarters, the successful spellers will get to take the stage live on ESPN 2 as they continue their quest to reach the finals and bring home the grand prize.
It is never easy to make it through the long, grueling process, but it will all begin at 10 a.m. ET when the semifinals kick off.
How can you tune in to the Scripps National Spelling Be semifinals on Thursday morning? Below is all of the information you will need.
Schedule:
Semifinals—Thursday, May 29 at 10 a.m. ET on ESPN2
Championship Finals—Thursday, May 29 at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN
Location: Gaylord National; Oxon Hill, Maryland
Live Stream: ESPN3
List of Competitors:
| LOCATION | SPELLER # | SPELLER | |
| Alabama | 1 | Joshua Bryant Kelley | |
| Alaska | 2 | Abigail FitzGibbon | |
| 3 | Vivian R. Miller | ||
| American Samoa | 4 | Walter Fa’apouli | |
| Arizona | 5 | Nila Dhinaker | |
| 6 | Alessandro Luis Bolus | ||
| Arkansas | 7 | Chythanya Murali | |
| Bahamas | 8 | Prachi Kondapuram | |
| California | 9 | Eesha R. Sohail | |
| 10 | Sam Coats | ||
| 11 | Sanat Mishra | ||
| 12 | Chase Seals | ||
| 13 | Timothy Lau | ||
| 14 | Patrizzia C. Fox-Beaudet | ||
| 15 | Keerthana Sivathasan | ||
| 16 | Aditya Mishra | ||
| 17 | Jonathan P. Capuyan | ||
| 18 | Isabel Cholbi | ||
| 19 | Allison Grace Grygar | ||
| 20 | Neha Konakalla | ||
| 21 | Samuel Littrell | ||
| 22 | Victoria Lynn Phillips | ||
| 23 | Eileen Xue | ||
| 24 | Shirlyn Prabahar | ||
| Canada | 25 | Emily D. Hynes | |
| 26 | Ryan Glenn Spencer | ||
| China | 27 | Dana Chiueh | |
| 28 | Xi Yuan Wang | ||
| Colorado | 29 | Teddy Schoenfeld | |
| 30 | Alex Jurich | ||
| Connecticut | 31 | Anika R. Malayappan | |
| 32 | Keshav Ramesh | ||
| 33 | Connor Spencer | ||
| 281 | Noah Fitzgerald | ||
| Delaware | 34 | Lillian Elizabeth Allingham | |
| District of Columbia | 35 | Greer R. Marshall | |
| Europe | 36 | Selomi Dayaprema | |
| Florida | 37 | Alexander John Manning | |
| 38 | Jacob Daniel Williamson | ||
| 39 | Daniel G. Samraj | ||
| 40 | Dylan Olster | ||
| 41 | Amber R. Robinson | ||
| 42 | Amy A. Maldonado | ||
| 43 | Mary Elizabeth Horton | ||
| 44 | Riju Datta | ||
| 45 | Jonathan Buckley | ||
| 46 | Summer Skye Hayes | ||
| 47 | Brian Reinhart | ||
| Georgia | 48 | Charles Sirui Li | |
| 49 | Sumedh S. Garimella | ||
| Ghana | 50 | Khushi Jeswani | |
| Guam | 51 | Ron Rocky Naig Coloma | |
| Hawaii | 52 | Christianne Borbe Abella | |
| Idaho | 53 | Kiana Jaz Lacroix | |
| 54 | Maia R. Dykstra | ||
| Illinois | 55 | Christine Alex | |
| 56 | Nafisa Asad | ||
| 57 | Meghana Kamineni | ||
| 58 | Alia Abiad | ||
| 59 | Zander Patent | ||
| 60 | Lucas Michael Urbanski | ||
| 61 | Yasir Hasnain | ||
| 62 | Keith Gerard Mokry | ||
| 63 | Anna Ackerman Snider | ||
| 64 | Kendra Leanne Scace | ||
| 65 | Adam R. Kastler | ||
| 66 | Madhav Chand Srivatsa Gampala | ||
| 67 | Kodai M. Speich | ||
| 68 | Sophie Bergman | ||
| 69 | Srivinay Tummarakota | ||
| 70 | Anika Patel | ||
| 71 | Audrey Melton | ||
| 278 | Medha C. Venigalla | ||
| Indiana | 72 | Tristan B. Hankins | |
| 73 | Alexandria Louise Wilt | ||
| 74 | Alekhya Ankaraju | ||
| 75 | Vanessa Anna Jodlowski | ||
| 76 | Lwin Moe Aung | ||
| 77 | Victor Y. Xiao | ||
| 78 | Anastasia Spahr | ||
| 79 | Andy M. Bertodano | ||
| 80 | Jinwon Pae | ||
| 81 | Risha Mehta | ||
| 82 | Hudson T. Wellin | ||
| 83 | Kimmie Collins | ||
| 84 | Sean Kenneth Ives | ||
| 280 | Akshaj Mishra | ||
| Iowa | 85 | Zander Reed | |
| 86 | Sibani S. Ram | ||
| Jamaica | 87 | Tajaun S. Gibbison | |
| Japan | 88 | Michaella Shari Bostrom | |
| Kansas | 89 | Sterling A. Hollond | |
| 90 | Vanya Shivashankar | ||
| 91 | Ethan S. Perrins | ||
| Kentucky | 92 | Paul Keaton | |
| Louisiana | 93 | Navya Murugesan | |
| 94 | Amelia Hebert | ||
| 95 | Chloe S. LaFleur | ||
| 96 | Peter Antony Davis | ||
| 97 | Mary Wynne | ||
| Maine | 98 | Nathan A. Manaker | |
| 99 | Lucy Tumavicus | ||
| Maryland | 100 | Isabelle Marie Simmons | |
| 101 | Danyah Farhat Imam | ||
| 102 | Nikita Singh | ||
| 103 | Megan A. Rabe | ||
| 104 | Stephen Hochschild | ||
| 105 | Maddie K. Bowers | ||
| 106 | Tamya Michelle Matthews | ||
| 107 | Jennifer M. Tennant | ||
| 108 | Selena D. Antosh | ||
| 109 | Gia Lauren B. Bautista | ||
| 110 | Aashka J. Patel | ||
| Massachusetts | 111 | Christy Jose Jestin | |
| 112 | Meryl R. Warpula | ||
| 113 | Mitchell A. Robson | ||
| 114 | Spencer Pogue | ||
| Michigan | 115 | Neha Seshadri | |
| 116 | Rebecca Tran | ||
| 117 | Rushil Raghu Kasetty | ||
| 118 | Sean Hickey | ||
| 119 | Nathan A. Jasper | ||
| 120 | Marguerite Arbogast | ||
| 121 | Nathaniel Britton | ||
| 122 | Nikhil S. Dwibhashyam | ||
| 123 | Hannah Jackson | ||
| 124 | Cameron L. Haynes | ||
| 125 | Jessie Skylar Williams | ||
| Minnesota | 126 | Alyssa E. Boynton | |
| 127 | Mark J. Kivimaki | ||
| 128 | Kellen Rufus Rodriguez | ||
| 129 | Shane DeSilva | ||
| 130 | Lauren Crabtree | ||
| Mississippi | 131 | Caribbean Sea’Era Adams | |
| Missouri | 132 | Faaris Khan | |
| 133 | Joel C. Miles | ||
| 134 | Kush N. Sharma | ||
| 135 | Jade Ray Samanta | ||
| 136 | Julianna Sonnik | ||
| 137 | Krishan Ghosh | ||
| 138 | Peyton Wiewel | ||
| 139 | Gokul Venkatachalam | ||
| Montana | 140 | Erik Alexander Hovland | |
| Nebraska | 141 | Grace Johanningsmeier | |
| Nevada | 142 | Amna Raza | |
| New Hampshire | 143 | Arushi R. Kalpande | |
| New Jersey | 144 | Alexander Paul Hauer | |
| 145 | Eboseremhen I. Eigbe | ||
| 146 | Sanjana Mohan Malla | ||
| 147 | Katharine S. Wang | ||
| 148 | Ed Horan | ||
| 149 | Carson A. Monks | ||
| 150 | Aron Wiener | ||
| New Mexico | 151 | Anish Kumar | |
| New York | 152 | Lydia Loverin | |
| 153 | Andrew C. Erdman | ||
| 154 | Sriram J. Hathwar | ||
| 155 | Gavin J. Buehler | ||
| 156 | Katie Ammann | ||
| 157 | Jhanvi V. Ravishankar | ||
| 158 | Michael James | ||
| 159 | Sai Vishudhi Chandrasekhar | ||
| 160 | Anil Singh | ||
| 161 | Buddy D. Noorlander | ||
| 162 | David Simeon Khamis | ||
| 163 | Connor S. Niederbuhl | ||
| 164 | Alaina Kenny | ||
| 165 | Dylan O’Connor | ||
| 166 | Harshita M. Shet | ||
| North Carolina | 167 | Shiv Patel | |
| 168 | Mary C. Polking | ||
| 169 | Abigail Pittman | ||
| 170 | Bettie Lehem Closs | ||
| 171 | William Austin Elder | ||
| 172 | Katie M. Danis | ||
| 173 | Kellan R. All | ||
| 174 | Suzanna Murawski | ||
| 175 | Hailey J. Lancaster | ||
| 176 | Emily Garcia | ||
| 177 | Thomas Manning | ||
| 178 | Lauren Somin Lim | ||
| 179 | Zachary Vincent Mallol | ||
| 180 | Hayat Alkadir | ||
| North Dakota | 181 | Madeline R. Rickert | |
| Ohio | 182 | Ferdian Euro Aditama | |
| 183 | Harry Harman | ||
| 184 | Max Danner | ||
| 185 | Nolan R. Reed | ||
| 186 | Olivia C. Kaiser | ||
| 187 | Joseph Cusi Delamerced | ||
| 188 | Ashwin Veeramani | ||
| 189 | Emily E. Helm | ||
| 190 | Kaitlin Hall | ||
| 191 | Kyle Ayisi | ||
| 192 | Alotus Nguyen Wei | ||
| 193 | Peyton Hall | ||
| 194 | Justin Thomas Hamilton | ||
| 195 | Sasha M. Davis | ||
| 196 | Nathan J. Keenan | ||
| 197 | Phoebe M. Jackson | ||
| 198 | Elias P. Kondolios | ||
| 199 | Melina Gabele | ||
| 200 | Annabelle E. Day | ||
| Oklahoma | 201 | Nicholas Allen Stark | |
| 202 | Cole Shafer-Ray | ||
| Oregon | 203 | Divya Amirtharaj | |
| Pennsylvania | 204 | Shreyas Parab | |
| 205 | Jacob George | ||
| 206 | Colin Francis | ||
| 207 | Aparajita Rao | ||
| 208 | Hannah Michele Citsay | ||
| 209 | Kevin Cui | ||
| 210 | Anna Tran | ||
| 211 | Diana T. Nguyen | ||
| 212 | Suneel Banerjee | ||
| 213 | Devina Singh | ||
| 214 | Emily M.X. Gunkel | ||
| 215 | Tushan Dargan | ||
| Puerto Rico | 216 | Alexandra Harper | |
| Rhode Island | 217 | Stephen Andrew Landry | |
| South Carolina | 218 | Hussain A. Godhrawala | |
| 219 | Andrew Dunn | ||
| 220 | Razeen Basunia | ||
| 221 | Lloyd Aleister Bonds | ||
| 222 | Isabella Mika Neubauer | ||
| 223 | Kalika Melody Burnett Bridwell | ||
| South Dakota | 224 | Antonio Vince Miguel A. Lansang | |
| South Korea | 225 | Seongjun Lee | |
| Tennessee | 226 | Benjamin Kulas | |
| 227 | Matthew J. Prus | ||
| 228 | Hayden McCuan | ||
| 229 | Naama Friedman | ||
| 230 | Dwight M. Moore, Jr. | ||
| 231 | Maria Victoria Kaltchenko | ||
| Texas | 232 | Kate Miller | |
| 233 | Krishna J. Gandhi | ||
| 234 | Claire Margaret Thomas | ||
| 235 | Lokesh Nagineni | ||
| 236 | Melody Grace Harwood | ||
| 237 | Ansun Sujoe | ||
| 238 | Shobha Dasari | ||
| 239 | Syamantak Payra | ||
| 240 | Mary Joy Li-Ann D. Patricio | ||
| 241 | Rena Morrell | ||
| 242 | Stephanie Nicole Garza | ||
| 243 | Gabrielle M. Rubio | ||
| 244 | Kara Paige Lehnert | ||
| 245 | Kasey Cuenca Torres | ||
| 246 | Nikhita Pathapati | ||
| 247 | Muriel Margaret Cotman | ||
| 248 | Anna M. Turner | ||
| 249 | Manasvi J. Reddy | ||
| U.S. Virgin Islands | 250 | Manav A. Thadani | |
| Utah | 251 | Mikayla J. Hall | |
| 252 | Grange Monaco Simpson | ||
| 279 | Michael T. Jones | ||
| Vermont | 253 | Liam A. Lustberg | |
| Virginia | 254 | Nicole Seman | |
| 255 | Samuel T. Pereles | ||
| 256 | Jacob Lawrence McDaniel | ||
| 257 | Brianna Bartley | ||
| 258 | Brayden Kelley | ||
| 259 | Jensen Schram | ||
| 260 | Ankita Vadiala | ||
| 261 | Ted Hamacher | ||
| 262 | Jae Canetti | ||
| 263 | Tejas Muthusamy | ||
| 264 | Shayley Grace Martin | ||
| 265 | Hadrian Reeves | ||
| 266 | Jeffrey Cho | ||
| 267 | George Stuart Estep | ||
| Washington | 268 | Buck Walling | |
| 269 | Elisabeth Ince | ||
| 270 | Téa Freedman-Susskind | ||
| 271 | Emily K. Schneider | ||
| West Virginia | 272 | Varun Kukkillaya | |
| 273 | George Andrew Triplett | ||
| 274 | Raimah Hossain | ||
| 275 | Lillian Taylor Bischof | ||
| Wisconsin | 276 | Karelyn Malliet | |
| Wyoming | 277 | Victoria Paige Allen |