2024-2025 Mock Trial News
October 7, 2024 | Mock Trial Team Wins Best Witness (times four!)
Coach Jay Spring ('20) returned from the 2024 Buffalo-Niagara Trial Competition and reports: "Our students represented the school extremely well, and ended up in a four-way tie for first place (with each other) for the individual speaking award for Best Witness. We were highly competitive in other individual speaking award categories.
Ultimately, we ended up just shy of breaking. The competition broke from 24 teams in prelims directly to 4 teams in semifinals, so it was an uphill battle, and we ended up facing two of the teams that advanced in prelims. Nonetheless, they did exceptional work.
Josephine Nwaogu and Caden Day, in particular, posted some of the most exceptional scores that I have seen from first semester advocates, and I would be remiss if I didn't mention that."
September 18, 2024 | ÃÛÌÒ½´Team Semi-Finalists in Unique Voir Dire Competition
ÃÛÌÒ½´students competed in a one-of-a-kind competition in Houston, TX September 12th-15th, selecting not one but five juries over the course of the weekend. To boot, teammates Madeleine Hanna (2L) and Chase Tidmore (3L) made it to the semi-finals, judged by retired judge Caroline Baker. Congratulations to the team, including alternate Ju Zhao (2L), and coaches Courtney Floyd Sines, Lili Nelson, and Catherine Schneider.