I/ST Minor Vaishalee Chaudhary and team partner Marco Romero (Political Science) win the American Moot Court Association’s (AMCA) Oral Advocacy National Championship (January 2022)
The competition, which was held on Zoom, featured 100 teams from schools such as the University of Chicago, Yale University, University of Pennsylvania, and UC Berkeley.
Chaudhary and Romero, the only team in AMCA history to win three regional tournaments, won five of five competitions in 2021-22 and went undefeated on the season. In addition to winning the national title for oral advocacy, they finished 4th in the nation in respondent written advocacy. They graduate as the winningest team in CSULB history. Chaudhary and Romero defeated three teams from the University of Chicago, including one in the finals, one from traditional AMCA powerhouse Patrick Henry College, and their own teammates Kelton Munch and Georgina Tierney (quarter-finalists). CONGRATULATIONS to both!