Kaleb "Slaw" Slawson
Interim President of OU Gaming Club
Student Assistant Coordinator of Esports & Co-Curricular Innovation
Information Science & Technology., '22
Kaleb.M.Slawson-1@ou.edu
Students in this program represent the tip of the sword in our development. The students that comprise our leadership team showcase personal initiative and high energy as they head each one of these individual programs and are put in direct contact with peer university programs, industry businesses and professionals, and present to other administrative bodies in and outside of the University of Oklahoma.
Our goals are to create professionals through mentorship and understanding that life long learning mentality is critical to innovation right now in the collegiate esports industry. This means students are encouraged to try everything and are taught to embrace failure equally with success to develop truly unique programming. There is not a single professional in esports that only does a single job. Our goal with these students is to directly impact the industry and can sustain stress, heavy logistics, and still be productive as the current state of esports administrators all exemplify.
Leadership candidates are selected from within the pipelines of active members in each of the programs we develop in the hopes of also mentoring high achieving students to fill the vacancies of their predecessors.
Student leadership from Spring 2021 and on are selected after an interview process of peers and advisors for the Solidus Leadership Award and are incentivized through that to assist with development as the next elevation of the 2016 initial strategic intentions to develop our own workforce through execution. In the future, these roles will become part-time and full-time employees of the university once the roadmap runs it's full course.
This next chapter is the dream of building equity in students, allowing them to take ownership of development, and building something monumental from nothing but passion and drive at the start. This entire program is a use case in entreprenuership and a testament to what you can build when it's thoroughly planned, constantly evolved, and keeps the core audience it's for at the forefront of consideration.
Leadership is the team of students that oversee the club and help it operate. There is a student leader at the head of each of our pillars (Community- Internal and Outreach, News & Media, Production, Streaming Entertainment, and Intercollegiate Competition), along with a President, Vice President, Treasurer, and Marketing Director.
Kaleb "Slaw" Slawson
Interim President of OU Gaming Club
Student Assistant Coordinator of Esports & Co-Curricular Innovation
Information Science & Technology., '22
Kaleb.M.Slawson-1@ou.edu
Uyen-Nhu Kristine "kwinunk" Nguyen
Marketing Coordinator
Biochemistry, '23
UyenNhu.K.Nguyen-1@ou.edu
Joey "Ghost094" Yeager
Community Coordinator
Finance, '23
archie.a.yeager-1@ou.edu
Jacob "Oculus" Ross
Assistant Community Coordinator
Computers Science, '23
Jacob.C.Ross-1@ou.edu
Jody "BosnWifey" Farmer
Intercollegiate Esports Coordinator
Creative Media Production, '23
Jody.L.Farmer-1@ou.edu
Silas "Si" Bales
Media & News Coordinator
Journalism, '24
silasbales@ou.edu
Austin "RexGoDragon" Nguyen
Production Coordinator
Computer Science, '22
austin.d.nguyen-1@ou.edu
Kate "itsafurn" Furney
Influencer Development Coordinator
Creative Media Production, '23
Katherine.H.Furney-1@ou.edu
Zach "Thunderbird" Satz
Marketing Director (2019-2022)
Art, Technology, & Culture, '22
Kevin "Piplup" Nguyen
- Vice President (2019-2020)
Biomedical Engineering, '20
Derek "DefectSnow" Snow
Media & News Director (2019-2021)
Computer Science, '23
Hashim "BrownDieselWagon" Hassany
Community Director (Outreach) (2021-2022)
Mgmt. Info. Systems, '22
Matthew "Silverplussonic" Miller
Streaming Entertainment Director (2018-2022)
Meteorology, '22
Kara "Kel" Kelbright
Community Outreach Coordinator (2019-2021)
International Studies, '21 (Masters)
Jonathan "RadPanda" Hudson
Intercollegiate Esports Director (2019-2022)
Meteorology, '23
jonathanhudson22@ou.edu
Jack "LovesLamp" Counts
-President (2017-2019)
-ORIGINATING FOUNDER
Communications, '20
Alex "AgentA2" Tu
- Vice President (2017-2018)
- ORIGINATING FOUNDER
Mathematics & Philosophy, '18
Callie "Kitren" Simonton
- Community Director (2017-2019)
- FOUNDING LEADERSHIP
Film & Media Studies, '19
Grad Cert: Media Management, '20
Bailey "UltimateCodex" Brown
- Media & News Director (2017-2019)
- FOUNDING LEADERSHIP
Journalism, '19
Rachel "TheAlbinosaur" Bray
- Marketing Director (2017-2019)
- FOUNDING LEADERSHIP
Marketing & Supply Chain Mgmt., '19
Jasmine Graves
- President (2019-2021)
- Vice President (2018-2019)
- Media Director (Twitch) (2017-2018)
- FOUNDING LEADERSHIP
Management Information Systems, '21
David " Vid" Kaucic
- Production Director (2017-2020)
- FOUNDING LEADERSHIP
Chemical Engineering, '20
Matthew Dang
- Treasurer (2017-2018)
- FOUNDING LEADERSHIP
Information Studies, '19