{"id":149551,"date":"2026-03-26T23:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/149551\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T23:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:15:12","slug":"bc-esports-team-named-1-in-nation-by-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/149551\/","title":{"rendered":"BC Esports team named #1 in nation by USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"students<\/p>\n

The Bethlehem Central High School Eagles Esports team has been named the top Esports team in the nation by USA Today. The nationwide news publication regularly ranks the top 25 high school teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Check out the USA Today Sports\/PlayVS Super 25 esports rankings here.<\/a><\/p>\n

The rankings are compiled by PlayVS, a scholastic and collegiate esports and gaming and curriculum platform. Play VS analyzed the performance of all high schools competing on its platform in spring 2026 determine the Top 25 esports programs nationwide. Schools must actively compete in at least five (5) unique esports titles to be eligible. Schools are ranked by the average match-win percentage of their top-performing team within each esports title. In the case of tied averages, tiebreakers are determined by the average game-win percentage and overall program size.<\/p>\n

The Bethlehem team had a winning match percentage of 93.75% and a winning game percentage of 88.71% across the five leagues it competes in.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a monumental accomplishment for our team,\u201d said team coach Navaar Johnson. \u201cI am very proud of these students.\u201d<\/p>\n

BC Eagles Esports Team Competitors<\/p>\n

Alejandro Ortiz Montoya, Grade 10
\nAlex Stapleton, Grade 10
\nBrady Arneson, Grade 11
\nColin Suhr, Grade 10
\nDerrick Danza, Grade 10
\nEric Zheng, Grade 12
\nIan Talens, Grade 12
\nJames Grabeau, Grade 9
\nJohn Stapleton, Grade 12
\nKai White, Grade 9
\nKarthik Narayan, Grade 12
\nLuca Ruggiero, Grade 11
\nMatthew Foster, Grade 11
\nMax Yaeger, Grade 11
\nNiccolo Genovese, Grade 11
\nPeyton Gray, Grade 11
\nShaurya Chougule, Grade 10
\nTaj Naser, Grade 12
\nWill Jensen, Grade 11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bethlehem Central High School Eagles Esports team has been named the top Esports team in the nation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[43998,153,155,154],"class_list":["post-149551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bchs-news","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}