Monday, August 28, 2017
Staff report
YOUNGSTOWN
Youngstown State University’s Intercollegiate Moot Court program ranks sixth in the nation, in the recently released 2017 Top Programs in Intercollegiate Moot Court listing.
YSU has advanced five spots from last year’s 11th-place ranking and comes in ahead of schools such as Texas A&M University, Duke University and University of Chicago.
YSU’s Moot Court Team has qualified for the national tournament for the past eight years.
Last fall, students competed in the Great Lakes Regional Moot Court Tournament at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan.
YSU teams took first and third out of 38 teams, qualifying them for the national tournament at Stetson University College of Law in Florida.
At the national tournament, the team of Samantha Fritz of Canfield and Jacob Tomory of Canfield finished in the top eight in the country with the team of Andrik Massaro of Canfield and Jacob Shriner-Briggs of Liberty finishing in the top 16.
The team is coached by Paul Sracic, chairman, politics and international relations.