Henrico High fielded three teams. All three made it to the final round of competition for the top 10 teams, where we captured the state championship. We just missed having a Henrico-Henrico final by a few points. Our other teams finished third and seventh (with the seventh-place team composed mostly of freshmen and sophomores). Of the six top attorney awards given, three went to Henrico: Shriya Chemudupati, Christine Guarnieri, and Nia Boyd (in her first year on the team!).

We will be representing Virginia at the National High School Mock Trial Competition taking place virtually in May.

I am incredibly proud of how hard these students have worked during the pandemic and through the difficulty of losing their teacher-sponsor, Ms. Nelson. They have worked 20+ hours a week on Zoom over the last few months with me plus much more on their own. I am particularly proud of the seniors, who are the founders of the program and who have been teaching trial skills to our new members. They are truly a special bunch.

Here are the students and their teams:

First place team:

Faith Dixon (IB 11)

Medha Durisheti (IB 12)

Christine Guarnieri (IB 12)

Yashita Keswani (IB 12)

Shalini Patel (IB 12)

Sruthi Venkatesan (IB 12)

Third place team:

Shriya Chemudupati (IB 12)

Layla Childress (IB 11)

Sevashtiana Emile (IB 11)

Shriya Nambula (IB 12)

Ritvika Warrier (IB 12)

Daisy Yates (IB 12)

Seventh place team:

Nia Boyd (IB 11)

Kaeo Burgess (CFA 10)

Eraj Khan (IB 9)

Ismat Khan (IB 12)

Aahil Pallath (IB 10)

Samyuthka Venkatraman (IB 9)

If you want to see the videos of our first and third place teams from the final round, they are available here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXAjb63Ta2U: First place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO8RMIiDccE: Third place