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| 2024 NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL MOCK TRIAL CHAMPIONS ABINGTON HEIGHTS HIGH SCHOOL CLARKS SUMMIT, LACKAWANNA COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA |
The Abington Heights High School Mock Trial Team from Clarks Summit, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania won the National Championship during a Tournament this past weekend in Wilmington, Delaware on May 4, 2024. There were 48 teams from 46 states. There were also teams from South Korea and Taipan.
By doing so the Abington Heights High School Mock Trial Team became the first Pennsylvania Team to win the National Title over the approximately 40 years that the national competition has been held.
Across the entire United States of America there were approximately 2,300 high school mock trial teams.
The Team from Abington Heights has won the Pennsylvania State Championship 3 times out of the last 4 years. In their past trips to the Nationals, they placed 24th and then 15th.
This year they handedly won the National Championship.
During the Abington Heights High School Mock Trial Team's Championship drive, they won every ballot (i.e., juror's scorecard) but one during the Pennsylvania State Tournament. Then, during the National Tournament, they won every ballot during the four trials that got them to the Final Championship Mock Trial victory against Texas at the Nationals.
The members, teachers and advisors of the 2024 National Champion Abington Heights High School Mock Trial Team from Clarks Summit, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania are:
Madeline Herold
Dane Huggler
Thomas Russini
Will Newton
Serena Mokhtari
Aidan Lam
Zachary Riggall
Joseph T. (JT) Healey
Ava Whalen
Christopher Cummins
Ava Shedlauskas
Nolan Moore
Henry Mahoney
Amishi Amit
Ananya Phadki
The Teacher Coaches for the 2024 National Championship High School Mock Trial Team were Jen Tarr and Amy Kelly. The Attorney Advisors were Daniel E. Cummins of Cummins Law and Joseph T. (Jody) Healey of Burns White. The Team's Performance Advisor was Anne Cummins.
The Abington Heights High School Mock Trial Teams shares this National Championship with, and thanks very much, everyone in Pennsylvania who supported them including all of the members involved in Mock Trial in the Pennsylvania Bar Association and in the Lackawanna Bar Association and the Monroe County Bar Association, as well as Lee Ann Munley - Executive Director of the Lackawanna Bar Association and her staff, Mackenzie Wilson, Esq. of Munley Law for her tireless work as the District Coordinator, Jennifer Menichini, Esq. for her great work for Mock Trial across the Commonwealth.
The Team also thanks all of the attorneys and Judges who volunteered their time along the way to make the competition a success at the local, state, and national level.
The Team also thanks Paul Kaufman, Esq., Jonathan Grode, Esq., Jonathan Koltash, Esq., and the Pennsylvania Mock Trial Executive Committee for writing and crafting the case materials year in and year out for the Mock Trial Competition.
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