{"id":10256,"date":"2022-03-07T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/?p=10256"},"modified":"2022-03-04T13:02:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T19:02:02","slug":"theis-named-griffon-esports-director-and-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/2022\/03\/07\/theis-named-griffon-esports-director-and-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Theis named Griffon Esports director and head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Luke Theis \u201920 has been named director and head coach of Griffon Esports at 大象传媒. Theis has served as interim director since September.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under Theis\u2019 leadership as interim director this fall, several Griffon Esports varsity teams have had competitive success:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Overwatch team advanced to the semifinals of the Peach Belt Conference Championship in Florence, South Carolina, the first postseason appearance and first in-person event in the brief history of the Griffon Esports program.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The League of Legends team won the ECAC Pink Division Championship with a 3-1 victory over Bloomfield College in the championship match.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Fortnite team reached the ECAC Semifinals, finishing 9th out of more than 50 teams competing.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Griffon Esports has also continued efforts to build connections with the campus and the St. Joseph community. The program has hosted events for Big Brothers Big Sisters and the YWCA Choices and Decisions program, and assists with esports programs at St. Joseph Parks and Recreation, Central High School and LevelUp Arena in Overland Park, Kansas. In 2021, Griffon Esports produced two 24-hour live stream events in a partnership with Extra Life, raising a total of more than $5,200 for the Children\u2019s Miracle Network.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the graduate assistant, Theis led Coaching Coaches, a program that equipped student coaches with the tools to coach varsity teams. He also coordinated the summer youth camp last July.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Theis was a punter on the Griffon football team as an undergraduate. He received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Technology in 2020, and is in his second year in the Master of Applied Science-Sport and Fitness Management program.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Theis \u201920 has been named director and head coach of Griffon Esports at 大象传媒. Theis has served as interim director since September. Under Theis\u2019 leadership as interim director this fall, several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10281,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10256\/revisions\/10281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}