Dave Wiegand is a top American Scrabble

Scrabble

Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15-by-15 grid. The words are formed across and down in crossword fashion and must appear in a standard dictionary. Official reference works provide a list...

 expert 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 (of 102 competitors) in the World Scrabble Championship

World Scrabble Championship

The World Scrabble Championship is the most prestigious title in competitive English-language Scrabble. It has been held every second year since 1991. The current World Scrabble Champion is Nigel Richards...

 in 2005. Since his career began in 1993, he has played at least 2,300 tournament games, winning about 67%, and has earned at least $86,000 in prize money.

In the 2009 NSC, Wiegand defeated defending champion and top seed Nigel Richards

Nigel Richards (Scrabble)

Nigel Richards is a Scrabble player who represents New Zealand in international competition. He is the reigning World Champion and a three-time U.S. National Champion, the only player to have held both titles concurrently...

 in the tournament's final two games to earn his second national title.

Wiegand lives in Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...

 and works as a mortgage underwriter.