LOGAN – “Ecstatic!”
That’s the word Victoria Jensen, a 6th grade student at Edith Bowen Laboratory School, used to describe the emotion she felt after winning the 2025 Cache County School District Spelling Bee on Thursday. Fittingly, ecstatic was also the winning word Jensen spelled.
Second place went to Ezra Seeley from Cedar Ridge Elementary. Aurora Lynn Sabin, also from Cedar Ridge Elementary, took third place.
“Even though it was sometimes scary, it was also really fun,” Jensen said after winning. “I just think it was super fun to do the spelling bee and everything and studying for it.”
Six elementary schools around the valley sent their top spellers to Edith Bowen Laboratory School at USU to compete on Thursday Jan. 16 at 6 p.m.
The competition went 27 rounds and lasted longer than anticipated after students correctly spelled all of the words judges had for them. So judges pulled a list of words from the archives, which students hadn’t prepared for. They spelled words like flotilla, diphtheria, virtuoso, topgallant, osculatory.

Victoria Jensen, a 6th grade student at Edith Bowen Laboratory School is hugged by friends on stage after winning the 2025 Cache County School District Spelling Bee on Thursday in Logan.
“When they pulled out the old archives, it got me really nervous, because I remember last year the words were like super hard.”
Last year Jensen also competed and took third place.
It ended up being a rollercoaster of emotions throughout the night for about 30 elementary students who competed at the district-wide competition.

Six elementary schools around the valley sent their top spellers to Edith Bowen Laboratory School at USU to compete.
The Cache County School District Spelling Bee is relatively new and began back in 2023.
To qualify, 4th to 6th grade elementary students voluntarily participated in classroom spelling bees. The finalists competed in a school spelling bee and the top five finalists qualified to represent their school at Thursday night’s district-wide spelling bee.