A Record Year for 羞羞视频 Moot Court
It was a record year for Moot Court at St. Thomas University.
For the first time in the program鈥檚 history, six teams qualified for the American Moot Court National Championships鈥攖he maximum number of teams any university can send is eight鈥攚hile a seventh 羞羞视频 team traveled to the championships in Dallas, Texas, as an alternate.
Two 羞羞视频 teams鈥擡mma Walsh and Brianna Workman and Dominique Goguen and Jarrod Ryan鈥攅arned bids into the second day of competition. Walsh and Workman placed ninth while Goguen and Ryan finished 17th out of 80 teams.
The ninth place finish is the highest placement ever achieved by a 羞羞视频 team.
鈥淚t鈥檚 better than I could have hoped for,鈥 Walsh said. 鈥淢y expectation was to make it to the second day of competition; it wasn鈥檛 necessarily to get an automatic bid to the top 32. That surpassed our goals.鈥
Each year, 430 teams compete in 13 regional events with the hope of earning one of the 80 bids to nationals. Walsh and Workman qualified after placing first overall at a , while Goguen and Ryan booked their ticket to Dallas with a third-place finish at .
This was Walsh鈥檚 second appearance at nationals, while Workman was making her debut. The pair were awarded third place in the written brief competition and both picked up speaker awards鈥擶alsh was 11th and Workman was 14th.
鈥溞咝呤悠碘檚 really earning a reputation,鈥 Workman said. 鈥淥ur brief placing third speaks to the quality of our arguments as a team. It was really exciting.鈥
Abbie LeBlanc and Navy Vezina, who came first place at the , were also among the event鈥檚 top speakers. LeBlanc placed fourth out of 160 speakers and Vezina was seventh.
Although they didn鈥檛 move on to the second day of competition, LeBlanc said attending the championships was still rewarding.
鈥淎ll of 羞羞视频鈥檚 teams, as well as all the teams at the competition, are extremely talented, and while Navy and I didn鈥檛 move to the second day, I鈥檓 honoured that we were both recognized among the top speakers.鈥
Olivia Ricketts and Elizabeth Tuck, Laura Robinson and Kelly Brennan, and Emily Williams and Camille Xavier also competed at the American Moot Court National Championships after earning bids at their respective regional events. Husoni Raymond and Adriel Miller qualified in the top 82, which earned them a place at nationals as alternate teams, though they did not get to compete in Dallas.