Ventura County Mock Trial Competition Winners

Monday March 03, 2025

(Photos courtesy VCOE)

     The school that won this year's Ventura County Mock Trial competition is no stranger to the top spot, both here and statewide.

     Team-1 from Trinity Pacific Christian School in Thousand Oaks came in first in this year's competition.

     A team from Trinity not only won last year's county competition but also went on to win the statewide title last year.

     They will take part in that statewide competition later this month in Los Angeles.

     The school that came in second place in the county this year was Royal High School in Simi Valley.

     Third place went to Team-2 from Trinity with Saint Bonaventure placing fourth.

     There were 22 high schools in Ventura County with a total of 525 students taking part.

      This year's fictitious case was People v. Gold which was about a city council candidate's kidnapping.

     The Ventura County Office of Education thanked Superior Court Judge Gilbert Romero and all of the local attorneys and other volunteers who were involved in the competition.

     Below are all the schools that took part in this year...

• Adolfo Camarillo High School
• Buena High School
• Channel Islands High School
• Fillmore High School
• Hueneme High School
• The High School at Moorpark College
• Newbury Park High School
• Nordhoff High School
• Oak Park High School
• Oaks Christian School
• Rancho Campana High School
• Rio Mesa High School
• Royal High School
• Saint Bonaventure High School
• Santa Paula High School
• Santa Susana High School
• St. Augustine Academy
• Thousand Oaks High School
• Trinity Pacific Christian School
• Ventura High School
• Villanova Preparatory High School 
• Westlake High School

Additional information about the Ventura County Mock Trial is available at vcoe.org/mocktrial.

(Photo courtesy VCOE)

    A Ventura County team has won the state Mock Trial competition.

     Trinity Pacific Christian School in Thousand Oaks came in first in the finals held over the weekend in Los Angeles.

     They will now advance to the national competition set for May 2-5 in Wilmington Delaware.

     This is the second time in three years that Trinity has come in first in the statewide competition.

     Their first win was in 2021 in a competition that was held virtually because of the pandemic.

     The state competition involves schools from throughout California who, like Trinity, have won local competitions.

     The Mock Trial competition involves students taking on the roles of prosecutors, defense attorneys, witnesses and bailiffs involved in battling over criminal cases in a real courtroom in front of real judges with real attorneys acting as scorers.