[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 21 (Wednesday, February 2, 2022)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E93]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 CONGRATULATING THE CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH MOOT COURT 
                  PROGRAM ON ITS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

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                         HON. ALAN S. LOWENTHAL

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, February 2, 2022

  Mr. LOWENTHAL. Madam Speaker, I rise today to congratulate the 
California State University Long Beach (CSULB) Moot Court Program, 
which for the fifth time and second straight year has produced a 
national champion.
  This year, over the January 21-23 weekend, CSULB Seniors Vaishalee 
Chaudhary and Marco Romero won the American Moot Court Association's 
(AMCA) Oral Advocacy National Championship. This also makes CSULB one 
of just four public universities to win a national title for oral 
advocacy in AMCA's 22-year history. This is CSULB's second national 
championship in oral advocacy, putting the CSULB team in rarified 
company with only one other school having won more. CSULB is the only 
public university to advance to the national finals more than once and 
the only public university to win the national title for oral advocacy 
more than once. CSULB has been the national finals three times (third 
all-time) and to the national semi-finals four times.
  The competition, which was held on Zoom, featured 100 teams from 
schools in the United States and Canada. 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 
most winning team in the CSULB Moot Court Program's history.
  During their run at the national championship, Chaudhary and Romero 
won eight rounds, including one against 12-time champion Patrick Henry 
College and three rounds against teams from the runners-up--the 
University of Chicago. Two other CSULB teams qualified for the national 
quarterfinals, giving CSULB three of the top eight teams in the Nation. 
The other quarterfinalists from the team were Aleece Hanson, Celeste 
Sanchez, Kelton Munch and Georgina Tierney.
  In addition to the national win by Chaudhary and Romero this year, 
CSULB won a national oral advocacy title in 2003 and three written 
advocacy national titles in 2004, 2014, and 2021.
  The tremendous success of the CSULB Moot Court Program in these 
competitions speaks volumes about the quality and leadership of the 
CSULB instructors, led by head coach Lewis Ringel, as well as the 
dedication and determination of the students in the program. Go Beach.

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