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Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and Woodrow Wilson High School tied for third at the Texas High School Mock Trial Competition.
Booker T.’s team, which includes East Dallas residents Claire Taylor, Isabel Gameros, Maxine Louthan, Audrey Buehler and Everett Johnson, along with lawyer advisers Bill Gameros and Abby Matthews, lost to Covenant Classical School in the semifinals. Covenant later won the tournament, held March 3-4 in Dallas, and Frisco CTE finished second.
Gameros was nominated for “Top Advocate,” and Booker T.’s courtroom artist, Jacquie Wheeler, won first and qualified for the national competition in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Woodrow’s Tyler Joplin was a “Best Witness” nominee.
Booker T. Washington High School mock trial team. Photo courtesy of Kathryn Gameros.
Along with these two schools, Dallas ISD’s Judge Barefoot Sanders Law Magnet also finished in the top 10 at the state competition. At DISD’s qualifying tournament, Booker T. finished first, and Woodrow finished second.
Booker T. won the state competition last year and finished fifth in the national competition. This is the third year in a row that the school has finished in the final four of the state competition.
Woodrow placed ninth at state last year. This year’s third-place finish is the highest for the school since 2008, when Woodrow finished second.
