FORT WAYNE, Ind. – The Indiana Tech Department of Athletics is growing to 27 sports for the 2021-22 academic year with the Warrior Esports program officially moving over to Athletics from Student Life. The move comes as the result of the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference (WHAC) adding Eeports as a championship sport for 2021-22. The addition now puts the total sport offerings for the department at 27.
 
Esports is no stranger to the Indiana Tech campus as the program has been around since 2016 and was a founding member of the National Association of Collegiate Esports (NACE) and was the first university in the state of Indiana to offer scholarships for students starting in 2017. A state-of-the-art gaming arena, located on the second floor of Andorfer Commons, was constructed in the fall of 2016. The arena is equipped with 20 high-end gaming PCs, DXRacer gaming chairs, and Razer gaming peripherals.
 
Jordan Cunningham is in his second year as the head coach  and the program offers teams for Hearthstone, League of Legends and Overwatch. They plan to add Rocket League for 2021-22 with the WHAC sponsoring Rocket League.
 
Six other WHAC schools, Aquinas College, Cleary University, Concordia University, Lawrence Technological University, Lourdes University and Siena Heights University, also sponsor esports. The WHAC is just one of three conferences in the NAIA (Mid-South Conference and Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference) that sponsors esports.
 
Esports will be the only coed sport at Indiana Tech and the first on campus since competitive cheerleading, which was dropped in 2018.