Esports at Transylvania
Competitive gaming has come to Transylvania University.
Transy’s esports program gives students a chance to get in on a billion-dollar industry in a state-of-the-art gaming arena in Thomson Hall.
Our esports players hone their gaming skills while developing their communication, cooperation and quick thinking to perform at their best. You’ll compete in tournaments against other schools for real prizes and bragging rights.
Viewing parties will be held for all Transy Esports matches.
National Esports Collegiate Conference
Transy Esports is a member of the NECC, which provides and supports the collegiate esports community. The NECC fosters innovative competition experiences, provides quality broadcasting services, and works to support an inclusive community within collegiate esports
The benefits of esports
Participating in esports prepares you for academic and career opportunities in a variety of fields after graduating from Transylvania. Involvement with Transy esports can provide benefits in a number of areas of study such as computer science, digital arts and media, art and sports management. Participation in a NECC member esports program provides opportunities available through their community, such as graduate assistant positions and esports coaching positions after graduation.
Open to all levels
Transy Esports offers competitive play to students of all skill levels. Our NECC tournament organizers place teams according to their average rank, allowing even teams full of bronze players to find fair and competitive matches.
Games for 2025-26 include:
- Thomas Holocher
- Kieran Pearson
- Lily Cheng
- Tim Dousay
- Will Goodman
- Finley Luperchio
- Minseok Park
- Nicole sisoumankhara
- Michael “Penn” Vandiver
- Vivienne Landry
- Aspen Magill
- Xavier Tester
- Royce Turner
- Ethiny White
- Calliope Edwards
- Ryan Farris
- Brendan Geer
- Sean Griffith
- Thomas Holocher
- Caden Lintner
- SarahBeth Martin
- Evan Smith
- Xavier Tester
- Ethiny White
- Nathaniel Hunt
- SarahBeth Martin
- Ben Matheny
- Emily Quitter
- Will Sparrow
- Jeffry Todd
- Jonah Whitehead
- John David Montgomery
- Delta Pirkle
- Scarlet Poor
- Ethan Reed
- Clinton Wandle
- Ava Boyd
- Caden Lintner
- Delta Pirkle
- Nicole sisoumankhara
Esports arena
- 12 Alienware Aurora R12 PCs
- 11th Gen Intel core i7 11700F
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8GB GDDR6
- 16GB dual channel DDR4 XMP @3200MHz Alienware 240 Hz IPS, free-sync, G-SYNC compatible 25” Monitors
- HyperX keyboard/mouse
- Xbox controllers
All free to use for students during open arena hours
Arena open hours:
Sundays: 2-10 p.m.
Mondays: 2-6 p.m.
Tuesdays: 3-5 p.m.
Wednesdays: closed
Thursdays: 3-5 p.m.
Fridays: 6-10 p.m.
Saturdays: 2-6 p.m.
Contact
Eric Reynolds
Coordinator of Esports
ereynolds@transy.edu
