Question: What winning speller has a relationship to the annual spelling bee held in the United States?

Context articles: Scripps National Spelling Bee
Spelling bee
Verba Maximus
Postmedia Canspell National Spelling Bee
Noah Webster
8th South Asian Spelling Bee
62nd Scripps National Spelling Bee
South Asian Spelling Bee
Hard Spell
List of Scripps National Spelling Bee champions

The Scripps National Spelling Bee (formerly the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee and commonly called the National Spelling Bee) is an annual spelling bee held in the United States.
 The bee is run on a not-for-profit basis by The E. W. Scripps Company and is held at a hotel or convention center in Washington, D.C. during the week following Memorial Day weekend.
 Since 2011, it has been held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center hotel in National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, just outside Washington D.C.
 It was previously held at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Washington D.C. from 1996 to 2010.
A spelling bee is a competition in which contestants are asked to spell a broad selection of words, usually with a varying degree of difficulty.
 The concept is thought to have originated in the United States, and spelling bee events, along with variants, are now also held in some other countries around the world.
Verba Maximus (abbreviated VM) is the annual literary festival of BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus.
 It is a two-day national event, held around the end of January or first week of February every year.
 Usually, there is a preliminary regional round preceding the national round which happens in a few major metropolitan cities.
 Four editions of the festival have been conducted over the past four years.
 There are events in multiple languages.
 The entire fest is managed by the literary asscociations of BITS- namely ELAS and Hindi Tarang.
 The regional rounds contain spelling bee and debate.
The Postmedia Canspell National Spelling Bee, formerly called the Canwest Canspell National Spelling Bee, was a spelling bee held annually in Canada since 2005.
 The bee is affiliated with the United States-based Scripps National Spelling Bee and uses similar rules and word lists, adapted to best suit Canadian usage and spelling.
 It is organized by the Postmedia Network, though it was previously organized by now bankrupt Canwest Global Communications, parent company of 9 of the regional sponsors.
 Canwest Canspell ended in 2012.
Noah Webster Jr. (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author.
 He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education".
 His blue-backed speller books taught five generations of American children how to spell and read.
 Webster's name has become synonymous with "dictionary" in the United States, especially the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary that was first published in 1828 as "An American Dictionary of the English Language".
The 8th Annual Metlife South Asian Spelling Bee was held at Rutgers University on August 14, 2015.
 The bee visited 12 regional centers, including Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, New Jersey, New York City, and Washington D.C. Both the champion and runner-up from each center were invited to the National Finals.
 24 spellers participated in the finals.
 6th grader Shourav Dasari was the champion, while 12 year old Jairam Hathwar was the National runner-up.
 Both spellers have relations to the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
 Dasari's sister, Shobha, had been in the annual bee's semifinals and tied for 22nd place, while Hathwar's brother, Sriram, was the champion of the 87th Scripps National Spelling Bee.
 Jairam himself tied for 22nd place at the 88th Scripps National Spelling Bee.
 He would go on to win the 89th Scripps National Spelling Bee, tying with 5th grade Texan Nihar Janga.
 This was the third time consecutive time that co-champions were declared.
The 62nd annual Scripps National Spelling Bee was held on May 31-June 1, 1989.
 in Washington, D.C.
The South Asian Spelling Bee is an annual spelling bee platform in the United States for children of South Asian descent.
 It is an annual contest tours the country each June and July in pursuit of the top two spellers from 12 cities nationwide.
 The competition is open to any student in the between the ages of 8 and 14, who has at least one parent or grandparent who is of South Asian descent, or whose lineage can be traced to Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and/or Sri Lanka.
 Since its launch in 2008, the South Asian Spelling Bee has been aired in over 120 countries on Sony Entertainment Television Asia as a multi-part series.
Hard Spell is a United Kingdom televised spelling bee programme for children between the ages of eleven and fourteen, presented by Eamonn Holmes, with Nina Hossain reading the words.
 It was first broadcast on BBC One in late 2004.
 Heats were held in different parts of the country leading to the grand final, at the end of which Gayathri Kumar was crowned Britain's best young speller.
The Scripps National Spelling Bee is a competition held annually in the Washington, D.C. area in the United States over a two-day period at the end of May or beginning of June.
 Since 2011 it has been held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center.