UMBC Mock Trial began competing in 2011 within the American Mock Trial Association (AMTA), which governs intercollegiate Mock Trial. In 2015, UMBC Mock Trial earned the team's first bid to the Opening Round Championship Series (ORCS), which is the second level of sanctioned playoffs within AMTA. The team returned to ORCS in 2016, and advanced two teams to ORCS in 2017 and 2018. In 2017, UMBC Mock Trial earned their first ever bid to the AMTA National Championship Tournament, and finished in fourth place in the "A" division at the Yale University Mock Trial Invitational.