<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2020/esports.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>01/30/2020</pubDate><title>Esports Club Building a Growing – and Vibrant – Community of Gamers</title><description>University of New Haven students with a passion for esports and gaming say there is no place they would rather be on a Friday night than gathered together, taking on gamers from universities around the country. Before long, they’ll all be competing in one of the premiere esports training and competition spaces in the country.</description><hide-description/><author>Jackie Hennessey, contributing writer</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>January 30, 2020</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/business/news/2020/e-sports-program-14.jpg" alt="Image of Emily Heller playing"/></image><image-caption>(L-R) Emily Heller '22, Thomas Chung '22, Giancarlo Consiglio '22, and Jae Miller '22.</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>year-2020</tag></tags></item>