Outsports profiles out coach and out player in Bowdoin College athletics program

Outsports has published another great profile of out athletes, this time a twofer with the captain of Bowdoin College's lacrosse team, along with the story of the school's tennis coach, who has founded the school's "Anything But Straight in Athletics" program.

Colin Joyner and Ben Chadwick are tearing down walls of homophobia at rural liberal arts school in Maine
By Cyd Zeigler

Bowdoin College head men’s tennis coach Colin Joyner knows all too well the pain and solitude of the sports closet. When he graduated from Bowdoin in 2003, he was a superstar. He played the school’s No. 1 singles all four years of his career. He was a three-time All-American. He was named the school’s Male Athlete of the Year his senior season.

When he graduated, many people on campus knew he was gay; He had been coming out gradually during his four years at Bowdoin. But when he graduated he moved to Palm Springs, hit the semi-pro circuit, served as a hitting partner for such stars as Justin Henin, Chanda Rubin and the indomitable Martina Navratilova…and he went right back in the closet.

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