YSU Moot Court Team Makes Final 4 in Midwest Tournament

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Youngstown State University’s moot court team racked up wins recently, with two students advancing to qualifying rounds for the national competition.

Team members competed in the Midwest Regional Moot Court competition at the College of Wooster.

The team of Alyssa Weyand, Maureen Baker, Ella Earnheardt, Sophia Misel, Guy Tepsick, Lauryn Swanson, Jada Judy and Tyler Church competed in pairs with Tepsick and Swanson, Earnheardt and Misel and Weyand and Baker ranking 19th, 13th and sixth, respectively, on the first day of competition.

The latter two teams then advanced to the second day, where Weyand and Baker made the final four, qualifying them for the preliminary rounds of the national tournament Jan. 10-11, 2025, in Houston.

To advance to the preliminary rounds, which will be held at the University of Houston Law Center, Weyand and Baker competed against teams from Georgetown University, Indiana University Bloomington, Colorado Christian University, University of Chicago, Morehouse College and The College of Wooster.

The competition also included an individual oratory category. Tepsick placed 10th; Baker placed 12th; and Weyand placed 17th.

Charles Howell, dean of the Beeghly College of Liberal Arts, Social Sciences and Education, said the students’ performance in this competition proves the quality of YSU’s prelaw programs.

“These students’ success stresses the excellence of YSU’s prelaw programs, the many opportunities it offers for students to work closely with faculty and the exposure it provides to strategies of legal reasoning as well as the legal profession,” Howell said. “I am incredibly proud of our students and am excited to see them go to the national preliminary rounds.”

Pictured at top: Maureen Baker and Alyssa Weyand.

Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.