Through the losses and the wins, the team continues to put their best foot forward and strive farther. This is the official Facebook page for the top-ranked Mock Trial program in Maryland. This year, Mock Trial has built off of their initial success. We hosted the first-ever UMBC Underdog Invitational on Saturday, January 11, 2020. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. UMBC Mock Trial took first in late January at Georgetown University’s 8th annual Hilltop Invitational Tournament, with UMBC’s A team finishing undefeated at 8-0. 370 likes. UMBC Mock Trial. Last season, we came in 8th place in our division and 13th place overall at the National Championship Tournament. 431 Followers, 71 Following, 71 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from UMBC Mock Trial (@umbcmocktrial) Over the past several years, UMBC Mock Trial has experienced a meteoric rise, and we are now recognized as one of the best Mock Trial programs in the country. UMBC Mock Trial looks forward to what is to come in next year’s season. Ben Garmoe is the head coach of UMBC Mock Trial. Last year, UMBC Mock Trial’s A-Team held a record of 6-2 at the American Mock Trail Association playoffs, their first winning record in a tournament and their first invitation to the Opening Round Championship Series, which proceeds the first round of the AMTA playoffs. Follow us here for updates on competitions, auditions, and more! UMBC Mock Trial began competing in 2011 within the American Mock Trial Association (AMTA), which governs intercollegiate Mock Trial. This means that we finished in the top-15 nationwide out of over 750+ teams! UMBC Mock Trial fielded a team with AMTA in 2011-12 for the first time since 2006. Seventeen high schools from around the state of Maryland came to UMBC's campus for two rounds of competition. You can view the tabulation summary here. He currently works as a civil litigation attorney in Baltimore. On the path to tournament victory, UMBC bested teams from George Washington University, Fordham University, and Hamilton College. Head coach Ben Garmoe ’13, political science, a litigation attorney in Baltimore, is extremely proud of UMBC’s three mock trial teams. Furthermore, Political Science students have led UMBC’s Mock Trial team to national prominence and have placed exceptionally well at Model United Nations conferences. UMBC Mock Trial Teams B and C at Johns Hopkins University. Ben graduated from UMBC in 2013 and the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in 2016. In 2015, UMBC Mock Trial earned the team's first bid to the Opening Round Championship Series (ORCS), which is the second level of sanctioned playoffs within AMTA. UMBC Mock Trial, Baltimore, Maryland. Founding President Travis Bell had begun to lay the groundwork for the program’s return in 2010 and early 2011, and several members including current head coach Ben Garmoe joined in fall 2011. For him, UMBC’s first-place finish at the Hilltop Invitational has special meaning.