Esports was added in 2022 with the head coach being Brett Riggs, the librarian and the assistant coach being Dylan Parker, a Spanish teacher. “If I could combine my passion for video games and technology and bring it to the students in our school in whatever ways I can,” said Parker.
The Outlook – Esports takes place in a gaming room inside the library where students can play their favorite video games competitively. Esports brings the fun of gaming into a competitive, team building activity for students who want to strengthen their hand eye coordination, or reflexes. Even though esports isn’t physically challenging, it still challenges the students mentally.
- Former esports player Sean Riggs stopped playing esports to play tennis. However when he did play his favorite video game was rocket league. “Teamwork is a big part of playing video games, especially in rocket league.” said Riggs.
What’s Next – Games are played against schools around the area that have an esports team as well. Games happen every Thursday and the teams will face off against each other playing a different video game each week.
Games – Esports has a diverse variety of games, with the favorites being Rocket League, Super Smash Bros, Mario Kart and League of Legends. These games all help different skill sets and can really strengthen teamwork.
- Rocket League is a fan favorite game where you “drive around in a car, and try to hit a ball into the other team’s goal, it’s basically car soccer” , said Riggs. Rocket League requires you to have team communication and forces you to be able to trust your team when you’re not on defense.
- The other fan favorite is Mario Kart. After school, esports holds little Mario Kart tournaments for everyone to participate in. By showing how fun playing video games is, I believe that this is a genius way to get students to want to join the team.
