Dave Wiegand

Who is Dave Wiegand?

Dave Wiegand is an American Scrabble player who won the National Scrabble Championship in 2005 and 2009.

Wiegand placed second in the same event in 1994 and third in 2000. He also finished eighth in the World Scrabble Championship in 2005. Since his career began in 1993, he has played almost 3,500 tournament games, winning more than two thirds of his games and has earned over $112,000 in prize money, ranking fifth among all players.

In the 2009 NSC, Wiegand defeated defending champion and top seed Nigel Richards in the tournament's final two games to earn his second national title.

Wiegand lives with his wife and two daughters in Portland, Oregon, and works as a mortgage underwriter.