Zoe Fournier Swire won the Bristol Warren Regional School District’s annual spelling bee Thursday night, successfully spelling “shrapnel” correctly to defend the title she first won last year as a sixth grader.

Zoe, a seventh grader at the Kickemuit Middle School, finished ahead of second place contestants Lee Ricci and her brother Evan Fournier Swire, who finished third. In all, 36 entrants and alternates from every school except Mt. Hope High School competed. Channel 12 TV personality Tim White was the moderator.

Zoe will go on to compete in the statewide Spelling Bee in Lincoln early next month.

Who competed?

Every school in the Bristol Warren Regional School District (except Mt. Hope High School) sent students to the district spelling bee as contestants and alternates. They included:

Colt Andrews

Skyla Silvia

Thomas Faulkner

Maxwell Travers

Sofia Sanneh

Guiteras School

Megan Harley

Thomas Godbout

Lucas Jerome

Leia Sousa

Hugh Cole

Sydney Noonan

Lucien Chidester

Marion Byrne

Benjamin Bartoszuk

Rockwell

Isabelle Courtney

Elsa White

Justin Perroni

Sullivan Molloy

Kickemuit Middle School

Samuel Merriam

William Feingold

Lillian Allen

Lea Ricci

Evan Fournier-Swire

Elhadji Toure

Jacob Perry

Kylee Sutcliffe

Eva White

Joshua Bartoszuk

Elysia LeBeau

Mason Dutra

Zoe Fournier-Swire

Jameson Vitullo

Christian Octaviano

Kylie Almeida

Jacob Cloutier

Gabriel Randall

Amelia Michaud

Carly Ferreira