The Chase for Win #1: Boise State LoL Bucks up after 0-7 Fall Split

As their nexus exploded in Week 1 of Division ONE’s Spring Split, and Boise State University (BSU) fell once more to the Ohio State Buckeyes in a quick two games, the energy in the room wasn’t crushed with defeat. Rather, the players for Boise State’s League of Legends (LoL) team – the lone team in Split 1 to finish the season without a win – were full of hope. “That was Kelsey’s big rivalry game. We really wanted to go out there and put up a big performance,” said team captain jungler Travis ‘HyDrO’ Goodrich. With the kill score even more than ten minutes into Game 1, it certainly appears that the Broncos have been turning things around.

Thanks in no small part to Coach Kelsey.

Kelsey Moser, a League of Legends esports veteran, has made her way to Boise State’s campus as she completes a graduate program for finance. Her business experience as the Chief Financial Officer for the Chinese league LPL’s English channel and coaching experience with former LCS teams such as Evil Geniuses and 100 Thieves, has primed her and this upstart Boise State squad for a new era of BSU League of Legends, after a two year hiatus. Her commitment to fundamentals and improving one aspect of the game at a time has sparked life into a BSU League team that is looking to make a resurgence.

Despite Boise State’s esports prominence, particularly in Rocket League and Overwatch 2, where they are consistently competing for national championships, their League of Legends team feels a bit out of their depth amongst the heavy-hitters of Division ONE. “Our big issue last split was skill difference. I mean, Division ONE has some of the best talent in North America, and 1v1 and 2v2 matchups that are meant to be advantageous for us just didn’t manifest that way,” HyDrO shared. “After each of the first two losses, frustration just kept mounting for me, for us. But after that third game, it was a mindset shift.”

The newness of the team and the ecosystem at Boise State means that Division ONE games are just a small piece of the competitive puzzle for the team. In fact, BSU LoL considers the rival Power Esports Conference (PEC) to be their primary league, utilizing DivONE games to expedite their improvement process. “We come in with no expectations, we’re just the underdog story," Goodrich claims. “Everyone loves an underdog story!” That lack of pressure for the Broncos has officially turned them into the scariest team on everyone’s schedule – the team with nothing to lose.

In the PEC and the Collegiate League of Legends (CLOL) circuit’s Mountain West Conference, the training weights of DivisionONE come off for BSU. With far less rank disparity to deter their creative playmaking, and a brilliant mind for the game in the coaches booth, Coach Kelsey’s group have their eyes set on that CLOL Conference crown.

Their pursuit of win number one in Division ONE continues throughout the Spring 2026 split, where Boise State will get another five attempts at their elusive goal, but that is not the be-all end-all for HyDrO as he prepares for his senior year at BSU. Considering graduate school for computer science, he’s interested in building BSU League of Legends up to the caliber of their other esports. “I want it to be at the same level as our Overwatch team," says HyDrO. “We’ve got Kelsey now, and we’re aiming to get to the level that we can recruit like our other teams.”

To follow this Broncos bunch on their path to their first Division ONE win, make sure to tune in weekly to the DivONE LoL twitch channel. You might just catch a miracle.