{"id":100209,"date":"2018-03-26T06:46:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T11:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=100209"},"modified":"2018-03-26T06:46:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T11:46:47","slug":"defiance-college-to-offer-esports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/03\/26\/defiance-college-to-offer-esports\/","title":{"rendered":"Defiance College to offer eSports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>DEFIANCE &#8212; Defiance College recently announced its newest sport \u2013 eSports \u2013 joining over 70 institutions nationwide who offer scholarships for student-athletes to compete at the intercollegiate level. Defiance is one of a handful of Division III institutions to offer the varsity sport.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-100212\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DefianceCollege-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"144\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are excited to be one of the few institutions in the nation to offer this emerging sport,&#8221; interim athletic director Jodie Holava said. &#8220;Adding eSports to our varsity sports program will create some great opportunities for our Defiance College community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The eSports growth has been tremendous over the last four years with Robert Morris University (Ill.) leading the charge. They were the first institution to offer eSports scholarships a number that has since grown to 70 plus in just four years.<\/p>\n<p>The Purple and Gold will join this field as they will provide scholarships for the 2018-19 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>Defiance will begin recruitment immediately, as well as develop and transform a practice and competition arena on campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information DEFIANCE &#8212; Defiance College recently announced its newest sport \u2013 eSports \u2013 joining over 70 institutions nationwide who offer scholarships for student-athletes to compete at the intercollegiate level. Defiance is one of a handful of Division III institutions to offer the varsity sport. &#8220;We are excited to be one of the few institutions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 09:22:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}