Former Scotch Oakburn College student Stephanie Wilks (’23) competed for Bond University, in the winning team, at the 2025 Sports Arbitration Mooting competition in Madrid. Hosted by the Swiss Arbitrarion Academy, this annual competition affords participants the opportunity to develop advocacy skills in sports arbitration. It attracts law students from around the world. There is a lengthy qualification process and a week’s training camp for the 16 international teams which make finals.
Stephanie was introduced to mooting by Helen Dosser who trained three Senior students and took them to the National High School Debating Competition at Bond University. From this, Stephanie received a scholarship to study law at Bond, joined their mooting program and is now an international gold medallist. Mooting is not a College sport but the students were super keen at the time to give it a go and Helen was qualified (background in law), so the stars aligned.
Congratulations Steph.
Sharon Beattie
Person-in-Charge Debating
