{"527681":{"#nid":"527681","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Mock Trial Team Finishes in Fifth Place Overall at National Championship Tournament","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.georgiatechmocktrial.com\/\u0022\u003EMock Trial\u003C\/a\u003E Team finished in third place in its division and fifth place overall at the American Mock Trial Association\u2019s 32\u003Csup\u003End\u003C\/sup\u003E National Championship Tournament, which was held April 15-17 at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe tournament hosted 48 teams from colleges around the nation, and Georgia Tech\u2019s team competed within the 24-team Kirkland and Ellis Division, finishing with 14 wins and 6 losses. During the closing ceremony, Sarah Stebbins, Georgia Tech Mock Trial president, was honored as an All-American Outstanding Attorney.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a result of its success in the tournament, the team rose in the American Mock Trial\u0026nbsp;Association\u2019s Team Power Rankings, climbing from 117th to a ranking of 20\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E in the nation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWords cannot describe how proud we are of the students on this team, who have worked incredibly hard all year with us to achieve these results and national success,\u201d said William Warihay, a practicing litigation attorney with Moore, Ingram, Johnson, and Steele who coaches the team alongside Andy McNeil.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMock Trial activities are situated within the Pre-Law Program in the\u0026nbsp;Ivan Allen College\u0026nbsp;School of Public Policy and overseen by program director Robert Pikowsky.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.georgiatechmocktrial.com\/\u0022\u003EMock Trial\u003C\/a\u003E Team finished in third place in its division and fifth place overall at the American Mock Trial Association\u0027s 32\u003Csup\u003End\u003C\/sup\u003E National Championship Tournament, which was held April 15-17 at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u2019s Mock Trial Team finished in third place in its division and fifth place overall at the American Mock Trial Association\u0027s 32nd National Championship Tournament, which was held April 15-17 at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina."}],"uid":"28513","created_gmt":"2016-04-21 15:39:48","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:25","author":"Daniel Singer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-04-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-04-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"527711":{"id":"527711","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech Mock Trial Team","body":null,"created":"1461337200","gmt_created":"2016-04-22 15:00:00","changed":"1475895301","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:01","alt":"Georgia Tech Mock Trial Team","file":{"fid":"205613","name":"image001_6.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/image001_6_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/image001_6_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":27445,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/image001_6_0.jpg?itok=NVLTgqCU"}}},"media_ids":["527711"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.georgiatechmocktrial.com\/","title":"Georgia Tech Mock Trial"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"171829","name":"mock trial"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E404.894.1720\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Erebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}