The UCAM has proved, during the last years, to be a pioneering university in the sports field by showing its involvement, by collaborating with different clubs and by participating in an active way in the training and research related to this field.

Now, the Catholic University takes a qualitative leap by including the Penguins Esports club, which will be renamed UCAM Penguins in all its professional modalities. The motto with which this club will compete from now on will be #GoUCAM. Furthermore, the creation of the UCAM Penguins Academy in its amateur modalities is foreseen, with the inclusion of the UCAM Lenovo team in it.

Tao Martínez, Strategy Director of the UCAM Esports, ensures that the selection of Penguins to enter this professional field has not been coincidental: “We have worked hard for this agreement because the club's objectives and path are based on the same values that the university defined at the beginning of its ‘Esports’ department: training, sustainability and work”.

The project will also be led by Marco Mourao, the current CEO and founder of Penguins, who will preserve and expand his functions within the structure of UCAM Esports: “We are looking forward to the future, since we now have all the support of an institution that will allow us to keep growing without renouncing to our main task. The UCAM is a model-entity in training and sports involvement, which is entirely in line with our activity of the last years. It opens many possibilities for us, such as the one of bringing professionals to play with us while they continue their studies”.

Furthermore, the League of Legends team will be trained by Cristian “Future” Duarte, one of the best known faces of the national competitive scenario after his time as commentator and analyst in the LVP (League of Videogames Professionals).

The following step will consist in transferring the structure of the club to the UCAM’s headquarters in Murcia. In parallel, new strategic alliances are being established to provide continuity to the work carried out during the last year by both entities, by improving the competitiveness and by fostering the ‘Esports’ sector.