Lake Ridge Academy’s Mock Trial Team Advances to State Competition

Lake Ridge Academy’s Mock Trial team will once again head to the Ohio High School Mock Trial competition held March 8 and 9 in Columbus, Ohio. The team also reached the state competition last year.

The Mock Trial club at Lake Ridge Academy is very popular and regularly fields four competitive teams.  This year, all four teams attended the Lorain County district completion held at the Elyria Municipal Courthouse. Two Lake Ridge Academy teams were victorious and advanced to regionals, which was also held at the Elyria Municipal Courthouse on February 16. The Lake Ridge Academy Blue Team won their trials to advance to the State competition. The Blue team also won one Best Attorney Award and two Best Witness Awards at regionals.

Members of the Blue Team that will appear at the state competition are Anjali Prabhakaran (Avon), Bunsi Chapadia (Strongsville), Riya Lakkarajun (best attorney award) (Strongsville), Maithili Patel (Seven Hills), Dominic Donnelly (Huron), Alec Wostman (best witness award) (Huron), Hana Baran (Avon and Lakewood), Halle Garbinski (best witness award) (Bay Village).

About Lake Ridge Academy
Lake Ridge Academy (www.lakeridgeacademy.org) is an independent, nonsectarian day school offering co-educational classes from kindergarten through grade 12. Founded in 1963, Lake Ridge Academy is committed to providing small class sizes and maintains an 8:1 student to teacher ratio. Located on a beautiful 93-acre campus in North Ridgeville, Ohio, Lake Ridge Academy is the only K-12 private, independent college preparatory school on Cleveland’s west side.