Published on February 17, 2020  

Cumberland's National Trial Team swept Region 6 of the National Trial Competition (NTC) with each team winning their final round and advancing to the nationals in Fort Worth, Texas in April. Each team went 5-0 on their way to winning the championship. This is the ninth time in the past twelve years that a Cumberland team has won the NTC regional championship and the fourth time Cumberland has swept the regionals in that time period, for a total of thirteen teams advancing to nationals in twelve years. 

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