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‘Tangerine’ was the winning Spelling Bee word
Rose Thomas wins 2025 Barton County Spelling Bee
2025 spelling bee winners
The winner of the 2025 Barton County Spelling Bee was Rose Thomas, a sixth-grader at Riley Elementary School. She is shown with runner-up Xander Montes, a seventh-grader at Hoisington Middle School. Thomas will advance to the Sunflower State Spelling Bee.
It took four rounds to narrow the field in the 2025 Barton County Spelling Bee from 22 to four, and then for a champion to emerge. This year’s winner was Rose Thomas, a sixth-grader at Eisenhower Elementary School in Great Bend. Her winning word was “tangerine.”