{"id":4177,"date":"2018-04-18T00:41:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T00:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/?p=4177"},"modified":"2018-09-14T20:41:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T20:41:22","slug":"sem-mock-trial-wins-state-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/2018\/04\/18\/sem-mock-trial-wins-state-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Sem Mock Trial Wins State Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4178\" style=\"width: 358px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-17-at-8.37.06-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4178\" class=\"wp-image-4178\" src=\"http:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-17-at-8.37.06-PM-300x222.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-17-at-8.37.06-PM-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-17-at-8.37.06-PM.png 742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Blue Knights are pictured immediately following their state championship win!<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Sem Mock Trial Wins State Competition<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Shailee Desai \u201821<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On March 22, 2018, the Wyoming Seminary Mock Trial team travelled to Harrisburg to compete in the statewide mock trial tournament. In order to get there, they competed in the district championship, winning against Hazelton in the final round, and won the regional championship, defeating Nazareth Area in the final round.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The state competition consisted of all the regional winners from 10 different regions, resulting in 14 teams total. Sem Mock Trial won the first three rounds, and in the final round, defeated Penn Trafford High School in order to win the 2018 Pennsylvania State Championship. The last time the Blue Knights won a state title was in 2011; additionally, the team went undefeated all season, having not lost a single trial this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Individual team members were also recognized for their records. Corey Bohn \u201818, Shailee Desai \u201821, and Meghna Melkote \u201818, won best advocate awards on that weekend. Philip Oulette \u201819, Molly Leahy \u201819, and Jillayne Gumbs \u201820 won best witness awards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The next stop for the team is the national tournament, which will be held in Reno, Nevada. The team will leave for Reno on May 8 and return on May 13, and they will be competing with teams from each of the fifty-states and from U.S. Territories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe had a very young team this year, but we worked hard all year long and it definitely paid off,\u201d said Meghna Melkote \u201818, team senior and captain. \u201cWe are all so incredibly excited to attend nationals in Reno, Nevada. It will no doubt be an amazing experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Blue Knights have had an amazing season in mock trial this year, and the Sem community wishes them luck as they compete in the national tournament!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sem Mock Trial Wins State Competition Shailee Desai \u201821 On March 22, 2018, the Wyoming Seminary Mock Trial team travelled to Harrisburg to compete in the statewide mock trial tournament. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/2018\/04\/18\/sem-mock-trial-wins-state-competition\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-17-at-8.37.06-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4179,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177\/revisions\/4179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinator.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}