Katie Kerwin McCrimmon (born 1965 in Denver, Colorado) is a journalist and former reporter/analyst for ESPN. She won the 1979 National Spelling Bee, representing the Rocky Mountain News, by spelling the word "maculature”.Scripps National Spelling Bee list of Champions and Their Winning Words Reader's Direst 1980 Almanac and Yearbook, p.690 (1980) () ("Katie Kerwin, 13, of Denver, won the National Spelling Bee by spelling "maculature" correctly")
McCrimmon's spelling bee win won her a full scholarship to Colorado College, where she graduated with a degree in journalism in 1987. After college, she began to work for the Rocky Mountain News and served as their Washington, D.C. correspondent until 1996 and continued at the paper until it closed in 2009.Trinkle, Barrie et al. How to Spell Like a Champ, p.98, 156 (2006) () In the early 1990s, CNN began broadcasting the National Spelling Bee and invited her to be a commentator. ESPN2 began broadcasting the contest in 1994, and McCrimmon became their commentator until 2005.
She made a cameo appearance in the 2006 film Akeelah and the Bee.IMDB Full Cast of Akeelah and the Bee
Katie is currently a writer for UCHealth.
See also List of Scripps National Spelling Bee champions
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