Major(s): Undecided

Hometown: Shanghai, China

About: Sydney is a first year freshly initiated into WMTA! For 2.5 years, Sydney’s favorite things to do in high school mock trial were 1) to use witnessing as an excuse to cry on the stand, and then get comments telling her not to fake cry because apparently you can’t see tears on zoom🥲, 2) whipping out a Bosto/New York accent that she got from a video game (probably wouldn’t fly here…), 3) shifting around rapidly in a 16:9 zoom frame during statements, 4) writing scripts the day of scrimmages and changing them at 2 am before the tournament, 5) using lots of cross demos that are technically objectionable under 403, ALL OF WHICH Sydney is excited to maybe one day do in college mock, with the addition of hitting furniture in a real courtroom. Sydney is trying to develop more identities outside of mock trial. Ongoing identities include gym rat, dog (frisbee catcher), and college student (who actually knows what they want to study).

Most Looking Forward To: Overnight mock tournaments!!