Father of National Spelling Bee co-champ shows off amazing T-shirt

Vanya Shivashankar's dad put on an amazing T-shirt after his daughter won the National Spelling Bee.

Vanya Shivashankar was declared co-champion of the 88th Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night (along with Gokul Venkatachalam), a clearly proud moment for her family.

After Venkatachalam correctly spelled "nunatak" to seal that the bee would have co-winners for the second year in a row, the families of both spellers gathered around as confetti fell and the champs lifted their trophy.

For the Shivashankar family, this was not an unfamiliar site. Their daughter Kavya won the 82nd Scripps National Spelling Bee back in 2009, so Vanya was the second Shivashankar to accomplish the feat.

Proud dad Mirle had planned ahead in the event that his family became two-time champs. 

Mirle Shivashankar, first father whose daughters both won the Spelling Bee, breaks out AMAZING SHIRT pic.twitter.com/9aozlWnYkx

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) May 29, 2015

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The Beefather, indeed. Congrats to both Vanya and Gokul. 

- Molly Geary