New esports coach hired

Drew Boehm previously worked in esports at UTA

BEN NGUYEN Managing Editor

After a stint being student-run following Greg Adler’s departure, the UTD esports team has hired on a new head coach for the program.

Drew Boehm is the newly hired head coach of the UTD esports team. A TCU alumni, Boehm was originally interested in law enforcement before a crop of collegiate esports jobs rose up and he applied for a few of them. After heading a private program in Kansas for a year and then spending a few years as UT Arlington’s assistant director of esports, Boehm said he was attracted by the success of the program and the school in the field.

“It’s been awesome seeing the success and seeing how well everything has gone, and I’m really passionate about this kind of stuff,” Boehm said. “It was just a culmination of a lot of factors, but the program and the school, [I] definitely love it.”

Besides being interviewed by the university, Boehm was interviewed by a panel of some of the current student leads on the team, including ITS senior and main Overwatch tank Luey Salinas. One of the things that stood out to Salinas about Boehm was an alignment between Boehm’s and the program’s goals. Boehm himself said that satisfaction and enjoyment alongside academic success was part

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