This week Northern Illinois University is celebrating our graduating students with Commencement ceremonies throughout the weekend. I'd like to extend a heartfelt congratulations to all of our graduating students and a best of luck to everyone as they complete final exams throughout the week.
As I reflect on the past academic year, I can't help but be proud of what we've accomplished. We're on track to see at least 8 students of the 30 current members of our varsity program receive degrees over the weekend. We've attended the first (and second) LAN conference playoffs in program history with Rocket League travelling to Sandusky, OH in the fall and Overwatch 2 and League of Legends both travelling to Oxford, OH and Miami University in the Spring. We brought aboard Eli Curry who completed his first full-year as Community Ambassador. We revamped our social media, video content and streams (shoutout to Joshua Bormann, Erin Marie Barker, John Taylor, and Ethan Nguyen), including the releas...