GOAT of UTD Esports moves on

BEN NGUYEN Managing Editor

After three years of running UTD Esports, Greg Adler will be moving on to the LCS Operations team at Riot Games.

In his time on campus, Adler accomplished many things while refining the esports program. Starting with a League of Legends and an Overwatch team, the Esports team has since expanded into Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Rocket League, added on multiple staff positions for coaching, social media and broadcast and won the first national athletics trophy for UTD in Smash Ultimate. More importantly though, Adler has laid the foundation for a team supported by passionate students with an emphasis on academic success. ATEC senior and Social Media Head at UTD Esports Hector Mavrakis said that the team’s focus is always on education.

“I think Greg, as opposed to many other program leads that I’ve heard of and talked to, has always always always punched in the fact that education is always first over everything else,” Mavrakis said. “I’m glad that he was able to kind of drill that into all of the student athlete’s heads that ‘if you don’t win a single championship here, I don’t care as long as you graduated with a degree.’ And I think that mentality was super, super key to keep everyone on board.”

Adler’s optimism and faith in every