Regent University Moot Court Board

Congratulations to Maxine Good, Luke Puffer, and Kellen Hasle on winning the Spong Moot Court Competition at William & Mary Law School this weekend! 🏆 🎉🥳

Competing against 42 teams, this victory is a true testament to the dedication, preparation, and hard work they’ve put in over the past several months.

A special thank you to their coaches, Professor Hernandez, Laura Hernandez, and Diana Bloomquist for their guidance and support throughout the competition. And thank you to Professor Franklin and Elie El-Habr for being there to cheer on the team.

Our moot court team has been unstoppable this year! Well deserved all around! 👏👏

What an incredible way to start the year! 🏆
We sent our best advocates to the Hicks Thomas Moot Court National Championship, an elite competition featuring only the top 16 moot court teams in the nation and they came home CHAMPIONS!

Congratulations to Elie El Habr, Diana Bloomquist, and Emily Mayers, whose dedication and countless hours of preparation over the past few months truly paid off. This achievement would not have been possible without the guidance, and support of their coach, Professor Hernandez.

We couldn’t be prouder of this outstanding team and their well-earned victory! 👏🥳🎉🙌

The 2025 Regent Cup has come to an end with Sarah MacKay bringing home the trophy and Maxine Good securing a finalist spot! 🏆🏆

This week the Board saw excellent advocacy. Their preparation and passion this week was outstanding. We are so excited to see them to start competing next semester!!

Huge shout out to Owen O’Hare for all his time this week coordinating Regent Cup and Professor Wheeler for ensuring everything ran smoothly behind the scenes. 🥳🥳

Our Moot Court team had so much fun today helping out at a local food pantry packing up food and giving it to those in need. So awesome we were able to gather and get out into the community! Looking forward to an amazing semester with our team!

Presenting our complete Moot Court Board for 2025-2026. We know it’s going to be such an amazing year with our new associates!

Presenting our 2025-2026 Moot Court Executive board. We are excited to introduce Elie El Habr as our chairman!

We are looking forward to an amazing year!

To wrap up the semester, our advocates Josh Ehst and Grace Henson competed in the John J. Gibbons Criminal Procedure Moot Court Competition. Accompanied by their brief writer Emily Dunson and Regent Alumni Anna Edwards as coach, Grace and Josh won their competition!! 🏆 Not only were they Moot Court CHAMPIONS, but they received the following awards:

•Best Petitioner Brief
•Josh won 2nd Best Prelim Oralist
•Grace won 3rd Best Prelim Oralist
•Grace won Final Round BEST Oralist

Lastly, our Regional Winners for the ABA Appellate Advocacy Competition traveled to Chicago for Nationals. Our advocates Elie El-Habr, Dylan Mahoney, and Sarah Imgrund advanced to the Octo-Finals and won Second Best National Brief! ⚖️

This has been an incredible year for Regent Law Moot Court! 🤩 Every member of the Executive Board participated in a competition (last picture), with our coaches working tirelessly to assist with our success. We are excited to see how the Regent Law Moot Court Board continues to grow!

Today marks the 2025 1L Moot Court Competition! The Board could not be prouder of this year’s group of 1Ls for their thorough preparation and performance as we got to witness each advocate grow after every round. 🤩⚖️

The awards are as follows:
🏆2025 Champion: Colton Hughes

Finalist: Caroline Richardson

Semi-Finalist: Angel Williams
Semi-Finalist: Maxine Good

Tenth Best Oralist: Grace Graunke
Ninth Best Oralist: Hannah Johnson
Eighth Best Oralist: Luke Puffer
Seventh Best Oralist: Harrison Brown
Sixth Best Oralist: Meghan Drane
Fifth Best Oralist: Jonathan de Haas
Fourth Best Oralist: Angel Williams
Third Best Oralist: Sarah Castle
Second Best Oralist: Maxine Good

🏆2025 Best Oralist: Colton Hughes

The Moot Court Board wants to celebrate THREE more teams that competed this semester!

We had three oral advocates—Brian Cormier, Brianna Snow, and Esther Lines—compete at the Brooklyn Law School’s 40th Annual Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition. In their first-ever moot court competition, these advocates were SEMI-FINALISTS (top 4 out of 34 schools)! 🏆

Jillian Frauli and Anna Wakeling, accompanied by their brief writer Miranda Neal, participated in the 2025 IISL Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition. The team got third best brief and advanced to the QUARTERFINALS! Shoutout to Jillian for switching from a brief writer in previous competitions to an oral advocate! 🤩

Last but not least, we had our 2Ls Maddie Shupe and Hannah Waters compete in their first competition at the Thurgood Marshall Memorial Moot Court Competition! These advocates did an exceptional job representing Regent.

More updates to come but we are incredibly proud of our phenomenal advocates! ⚖️

To kick off the semester, our advocates Ryan Bianchi, Hailey Harp, and Jillian Frauli competed in the 75th Annual National Moot Court Competition sponsored by the NY Bar Association. ⚖️

Accompanied by their coach, Professor Hernandez, our oralists Ryan and Hailey secured a spot in the octofinals out of 31 teams across the country!

We are so proud of our incredible advocates and will continue to share many updates of this semester’s packed competition schedule.

Our REGIONAL CHAMPIONS, Ryan Bianchi, Hailey Harp, and their incredible brief writer Jillian Frauli traveled to Richmond, VA over the weekend to compete in Regionals for the New York City Bar National Moot Court Competition. 🏆⭐️

Not only did our advocates win this competition but Hailey Harp won the Best Oralist award!🥇

More updates to come as the team heads to New York in January after securing a well-deserved spot in Nationals!