Moot Court teams finish in Top 10 at Nationals

NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP:  

CSULB’s Marissa Rael and Chris Heffernan and Anna Sasaki and Jonah Zeko finished tied for 5th and tied for 9th in the nation respectively in team oral advocacy.  Rael and Heffernan, the 74th seeded team out of 80, were the fourth team in CSULB history to advance as far as the national quarter-finals.  This is the ninth straight season that CSULB has advanced to the national sweet-sixteen and the third time it had advanced two teams that far.  All four teams (Sasaki and Zeko, Gabriella Passeri and Diego Magana, Nicole Opendo and Amanda Botelho, and Rael and Heffernan advanced to elimination rounds.  Magana and Heffernan finished 11th and 21st in individual oral advocacy respectively.  Nicole Opendo and Amanda Botelho and Sasaki and Zeko finished 7th and 10th in the nation in written advocacy (respondent).   This is the ninth straight season that CSULB has placed a team in the top ten of the national written brief competition.  

HIGHLIGHTS:

•  Team Oral Advocacy:  5^th place (tied) and 9^th place (tied) in the nation.  This is of 438 teams that competed this season.  Top 1.1% and 2% respectively.
• Individual Advocacy:  11^th place and 21^st in the nation.  This is out of 876 advocates who competed this season.  Top 1.2% and 2.3% in the nation respectively.
• Written Advocacy (Respondent):  7th and 10^th place in the nation.

Thanks to all who helped this season by judging, coaching, and/or grading written briefs. 

Congratulations, Moot Court!

For more information on Moot Court, please visit the Moot Court Website.

Quarter-finalists Marissa Rael and Chris Heffernan with Professor Lewis Ringel

CSULB Mooters at 2019 National Championship: Monserrat Quezeda, Diego Magana, Gabriella Passeri, Anna Sasaki, Amanda Botelho, Nicole Opendo, the Solicitor General of the State of West Virginia Lindsay See, Marissa Rael, Chris Heffernan, Jonah Zeko, and Professor Lewis Ringel.