Coaches

The National Association of Basketball Coaches will host a panel discussion on LGBT issues at the Final Four. The project is the brainchild of gay basketball coach Anthony Nicodemo and is sponsored by the You Can Play project.

Anthony Nicodemo contemplated quitting his coaching career two years ago. After coming out, he found his groove and led Saunders basketball to their best season in over three decades.

Campus Pride says the University of Minnesota-Duluth will not be considered as an inclusive campus until it answers to questions of why lesbian hockey coach Shannon Miller was fired.

Saunders High School basketball was a disaster. Several years after openly gay coach Anthony Nicodemo took over, it is an emerging powerhouse with a huge win over Greeley in the quarterfinals. This matters.

Jim and Donna Nolan have had four sons play basketball at Saunders High School. They wish openly gay coach Anthony Nicodemo had coached all of them. Here's why.

Anthony Nicodemo has been named co-Coach of the Year by his basketball coaches association.

The number of female coaches in college sports is dwindling as programs replace them with men. In the case of the University of Minnesota-Duluth, Shannon Miller will take five national titles with her.

Nora Cothren was an out lesbian ice hockey player at Smith College. Yet after she graduated she went back in the closet to become a coach, even denying her engagement to be married. Now she's finding the strength to be her true self.

D'Evelyn High School coach Micah Porter felt he was gay when he married a woman. He hoped that would change things. It didn't.

Anthony Nicodemo and the Saunders Blue Devils won the Yonkers City Championship 18 months after coming out as gay.

Julie Shaw, head women's basketball coach at the Univ. of La Verne, hears hear voice shake every time she says, "I'm gay." That doesn't stop her in her quest to help other coaches to understand LGBT issues.

The allegations by two Pepperdine athletes that their coach engaged in systematic anti-gay discrimination harkens back to the hate-filled reign of Rene Portland at Penn State.

When he was in the closet, Anthony Nicodemo used Outsports as a resource for information and inspiration. Ultimately he found acceptance and a family. Today he is helping other people in the closet find strength.

Evan Risk is a jr. high school track & cross-country coach in rural Iowa. When his friend talked about killing the queers at an Iowa basketball game, he knew he had to come out to him.

Former basketball player and coach Katie Barnes talks about their fear of being out and having to live a double life while they coached at a Catholic school.

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St. Mary High School in Dell Rapids, S.D., will not fire volleyball coach Nate Alfson, who came out publicly on Outsports last week.

Hopefully St. Mary High School will embrace Nate Alfson now that he's publicly out, just as they did before he made his announcement.

The San Antonio Spurs deserve applause, but Becky Hammon deserves all the credit for opening the opportunity for the first female full-time assistant coach in NBA history.

Jeff Sanborn coaches boys cross-country and boys and girls track & field at Wethersfield High School in Connecticut. He came out as gay to his teams recently. It went without incident.