Volleyball

Chris Voth has landed on his feet after rejection last year.

Liliane Maestrini and Larissa Franca get the "up close and personal" treatment.

Chris Voth said a volleyball team recently refused to hire him because he's gay, citing problems with homosexuality in the team's country. Sounds like more front-office homophobia at work.

"I'm sorry for the mistake today," Chris Marlowe says.

When Andre Arsenault came out to his college volleyball team, his coach stuck by his gay player's side.

Chloe Psyche Anderson is headed to UC-Santa Cruz to play volleyball. She shares her physical and emotional struggles as a trans athlete transitioning genders while competing.

Stephanie Shostak considered leaving her career as a top volleyball official when she came out as trans. The welcoming messages she got from Volleyball Canada and US Volleyball assured her she could be out in sports.

"The realization that I was not alone was both shocking and profound. All my fears had been completely unjustified."

Vincent Magdaong opens up about being gay in college sports in the Philippines. Not surprisingly, he has found great acceptance

Nick Clark came out publicly on Outsports five years ago. That hasn't stopped his career from advancing.

Kendall Covington opened up with Penn Sports Network on being a bi athlete at the school and finding love and support from her teammates.

Erik Hall will have a regular column rounding up the results of LGBT athletes and coaches in college sports. This week he focuses on Bucknell's scoring machine, Jesse Klug.

Erskine College released an anti-gay policy from its Board of Trustees, then tried to backtrack a big. The students and faculty should demand the school rescind the policy all-together.

Erskine College volleyball player Drew Davis, who struggled with reconciling being gay with the Southern Baptist Church, was outed inadvertently to one of his teammates during a Skype chat. Juan Varona was out in high school in Puerto Rico. Both are embraced by the team, which owns the nation's second-longest current win streak.

Daniel Dalanhese Thanks to our friend and awesome photographer Brent for these shots of the pro beach volleyball duo of Daniel Dalanhese and Bryan Stewart. These were taken at the recent Huntington Beach event. Daniel Dalanhese Thanks to our friend and awesome photographer Brent for these shots of the pro beach volleyball duo of Daniel […]

Just got done watching live the U.S. men’s thrilling, five-set (25-22, 25-21, 25-27, 22-25, 15-13) win over Russia in the indoor volleyball semifinals. It is the first time the U.S. men will play for gold since 1988. U.S. coach Hugh McCutcheon continues to deal with the emotional fallout from the murder Aug. 9 of his […]

Latvia’s Martins Plavins (right) and Aleksandrs Samoilovs, ranked 21 of 24 men’s beach volleyball teams, beat U.S. team Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers (ranked No. 1) 21-19, 21-18. Longtime Outsports photographer Brent Mullins, who has shot Dalhausser and Rogers for years, had this insight: "If anyone was a lock for a gold, I thought it […]

Pepperdine University is just up the coast from where I live and although I can’t say I’m a fan of their religious bent I can say that I was a fan of their volleyball team, the Pepperdine Waves. The school had a great record in the sport, it was well supported by the student body, […]