Pictured: Coach Wurden, Sage, Jojo, Mason H, Gerald, Isaac, Nori Gavin White, Matthew CL, Mason E, Akira, Jesus, Ryan F, Malek, Ian, Kian, Noah R
Not pictured: Noah D, Angelo, Potisane, Toby, Veer, Kody, Akito ,Hannah, Michael, Nolan, Matthew E, Sarina, William, Andrew, Ryan C, Ashton, Logan, Jackson
Mr. Wurden teaches STEM subjects and coaches Robotics and Esports.
He completed NASEF's Coaching Academy for Educators and Scholastic Fellow program, participates in CoachRivals in the summer as both a player, streamer, and broadcast engineer, and published the free support website, "Esports Training for New Coaches".
Mr. Wurden's gamer brag list includes participating in a LAN-party as early as 1986, with three IBM 286's daisy chained together using parallel ports. He's a good Starcraft 2 player and also enjoys Kerbal Space Program, Total War: Shogun 2 and Rome 2, and 'won' EVE Online as an industrialist. One of his hobbies includes scratch-building and overclocking water-cooled gaming rigs, including this one and this one. His League of Legends gameplay style once got described as "low-elo ooga booga", which means he'll occassionally need to caveat his coaching with "do as I say, not as I do".
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Kayla Grbac founded the OHS eSports club in her Senior year at Oakmont High School. After being a part of one of the educational camps at UC Irvine's eSports Program, she became passionate about the eSports industry and wanted to create a space for students at her high school to become involved in the amazing world of competitive gaming. She served as the Team Manager for both the Overwatch and League of Legends teams for the 2018-2019 seasons, as well as the Team Captain and main ADC role for the 2018-2019 League of Legends team. Since graduating, Kayla has been accepted to UC Irvine as an incoming freshman for the 2019-2020 school year. She will be studying Computer Science in hopes of becoming a Video Game Designer. She hopes to continue keeping connections with the OHS Esports Team and hopes for many more years of exciting competition and fun.
David led the club as president for 1.5 years prior to an early graduation. He plays League of Legends and Hearthstone as much as he can. On the competitive team and fun Fridays he loves to stay back and be a tank for the team and let others be the flashy carries. He presided over a period of growing membership and competitive tournament play despite the challenges of 2020.
Myldred Hernandez-Gonzalez is a senior at Oakmont High School who spends most of her time tackling the workload of the IB Diploma. In her free time, Myldred leads four other clubs and balances her time by playing video games with her younger brother and board games with her younger sister. Despite only starting to play League of Legends this year, she has always enjoyed Super Smash Bros with her friends and working cooperatively. On Wednesdays and Fridays, she can be found annoyingly luring champions into her turret with her charm and pushing mid-lane alongside her teammates.
Jesus started esports as a freshman and was highly engaged from the get go. As he learned the game, he created a beginners guide and was instrumental in developing the team's warmup, scouting, and practice routines. Starting in his Junior year, he took over as team captain and presided over a period in which the school and our sports teams both shrank. This meant we were continually recruiting and training up players who'd never before tried League of Legends, and because of his instruction, patience, and leadership we continually punched above our weight class despite having rosters of 2/5ths or 3/5ths novice players.
Jesus flexes to every role and loves theory-crafting new comps. He picked up the catch phrase, "Mistakes were made..." including that one time he was jungling on Rammus but forgot to take Smite, and ended up pivoting to a 2-1-2 support Rammus.
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Ashley juggled a full load of IB and AP classes, presided over Coding Club, and became our super-streamer/broadcast engineer/video editor. She won the Intel/AVGL video contest and donated the proceeds to fund the team's streaming PC, which is now named in her honor. :) She is pursuing computer science at Stanford, and although Overwatch is her primary game, she got to play in a company League of Legends tournament at one of her summer internships at Intel!
Angel is a Senior and loves being in student government, setting up events, and watching everyone have fun. Esports is another area where he can enjoy himself alongside friends and teachers, and bring his leadership skills to bear on the League of Legends development team.
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Jack Longaker is a Senior at Oakmont High School. Besides tackling some incredibly challenging and rewarding IB classes while maintaining over a 4.0 GPA, Jack participates on the Chess team and looks forward to leading the highly successful Overwatch team this fall. He's a talented shot-caller known for making quick, insightful plays and hoping the rest of his team is right behind him.
Team captain for Overwatch during Fall 2020, Adam led the team through a nearly-undefeated season, with only one loss to Solar Gaming in the final bracket for NASEF's regional playoffs. Before graduation, he had begin working in Unity and Java for game design, and took the first pass on our stinger and other media for our streaming package.