Higher ed esports is past "should we have a program." The question now is what kind, and that's a structural decision: athletics, rec sports, student affairs, or academic. I help institutions answer it, then build it.
Scoping studies and launch proposals for colleges building or rebuilding esports: structural home, staffing, facility, budget, title selection, and the first-three-years plan. Currently advising Texas A&M University-Central Texas on its varsity esports proposal.
Eligibility frameworks, compliance design, codes of conduct, and handbook authorship, informed by chairing NACE's Eligibility Enforcement Committee and writing the Texas Esports Collective's scholastic and collegiate eligibility policy from scratch.
Championship and LAN design from format to floor plan. I organize the Texas Esports Conference season and the Metroplex Major (DFW, February 2027), and I built the venue partnership model with the Boeing Center at Tech Port that took a regional program national.
District and school esports programs that survive their founding coach: league structure, coach training, and the student-to-coach pipeline.
- Texas A&M University-Central Texas: varsity esports program proposal (2026)
- Texas A&M System Showdown: created the System's first cross-campus esports championship, now an annual tradition (Boeing Center at Tech Port, 2025)
- Boeing Center at Tech Port: venue partnership model connecting a university program to a world-class LAN facility
- Texas A&M-San Antonio Sports Clubs Handbook: authoring the university's first sports-club policy framework as esports transitions to a student-led club ecosystem
- Federal Work-Study esports roles: designing paid scholastic-mentor and event-operations positions with Texas universities
- Texas Esports Collective: founded the statewide 501(c)(3); eligibility policy, season design, and a championship at the Boeing Center in year one
Talks and panels on collegiate esports strategy, eligibility and governance, scholastic-to-collegiate pipelines, and esports as experiential education.
- NAECAD National Convention: presenter (2026)
- Division of Student Affairs Symposium, Texas A&M-San Antonio (2025)
- Expert consultant, Arbolus (2022 to present)
If you're scoping a program, writing the policy that governs one, or looking for a speaker on esports and education, I'd like to hear about it.