Tufts lacrosse lgbtq
July 30, 2024 – Today, Athlete Ally announced that the Tufts Athlete Ally Campus Chapter will be honored at the 2024 Sportsman Ally Action Awards. Athlete Ally is a nonprofit corporation focused on fostering inclusive athletic environments and mobilizing the athletic community to champion LGBTQI+ equality. The Action Awards will be held on Thursday, October 17th at 6pm EST in New York City. Team USA athlete Nikki Hiltz will also be honored, along with additional honorees to be named in coming months.
With diversity and inclusion as its foundational principles since its founding in 2021, Tufts Athlete Ally has become a thriving space for LGBTQ+ identifying and allied athletes to find community. Led by Chapter President and Founder Ryan Kane, the Tufts Chapter’s ongoing tries each month acquire promoted queer representation and encouraged engagement among individuals of diverse identities, fostering friendships across teams and backgrounds while also working collaboratively to build more inclusive athletic spaces.
By establishing a culturally diverse executive board and implementing the role of team representatives, Tufts Player Ally has reached every athlete on campus. Now,
Gay Athletes In Lacrosse – What’s The Problem Here?
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Lacrosse has grown a lot recently, but with all this GTG fever, are we forgetting to include some people?
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A Lack of Acceptance
Over the past two years I have had hundreds, if not thousands, of “Grow The Game” conversations with individuals who want to see our great sport thrive in their local communities. However, one recent conversation has literally made me interrogate whether or not the “GTG” mindset is always really being communicated or if it’s just lip service used to cover up a person’s correct ideals.
This week, I was talking at a academy with an emerging team of interested lacrosse players, and I brought up the idea of recruiting openly gay/lesbian athletes
Creating Space for Queer Student-Athletes and Athlete Allies
Ryan Kane, A25, was having trouble finding a community for people fond of him at Tufts—openly homosexual student-athletes—so he decided to create one.
Kane, who is a member of the men’s rowing team, is now the president of Tufts Athlete Ally, a campus chapter of the national nonprofit of the same name. The community aims to create room for LGBTQ+ and straight-ally student-athletes by hosting monthly events and fostering group for an often-unrecognized demographic on college campuses.
When Kane contacted Sophie Novitsky, A25, about his idea to build a new collective for student-athletes, she felt a strong responsibility to join the group.
“As somebody who was out, but wasn't necessarily seen as being part of the LGBTQ community, I really wanted to be a part of this space,” recalled Novitsky, a member of the women’s rowing team who is now a Tufts Athlete Ally executive board member and the group’s social media coordinator. “I also wanted people like me to have a space where they could feel relaxed enough to participate and to feel like they have that opportunity to be a part of this community.”
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Five Tufts University men's lacrosse players remain hospitalized monitoring a recent workout led by a graduate of a Navy SEAL coaching program, according to a spokesman for the school.
About 50 team members participated in the voluntary, 45-minute workout session on campus Monday, according to Patrick Collins, Tufts executive director of media relations. The session was led by a Tufts alum and recent graduate of the BUD/S Navy SEAL coaching program.
Collins said 12 members of the lacrosse team have been diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis, or rhabdo, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says is "a serious medical condition that can guide to permanent disability or death." It occurs when muscle breaks down, often from overexertion, and releases its contents into the bloodstream. Symptoms can show up similar to heat-related illnesses and dehydration. The only way to determine if you have it is through testing.
Five of the student athletes remain hospitalized, Collins said, adding that both the number of confirmed cases and the number of those hospitalized could change.
"Our thoughts are with the players and their families, and we are hoping for their quick return to goo
I have always wanted to know why some Tufts students walk around campus carrying a gallon of Poland Spring water. Do they stockpile gallons, or refill them? Aren’t they bulky and cumbersome? Yet, watching down an acknowledge was easier said than done. From the gear and uniforms, it’s noticeable that these gallons are accessories sported by players on a men’s athletics team. However, none of my retain close friends are on any of Tufts’ Division III teams, nor carry out I have any solid mutual connections to anyone on the men’s football or lacrosse teams, who I suspected to be the gallon-users.
Do athletes and non-athletes really occupy such different worlds at Tufts? Senior Jessie Ku claims we do. As someone involved in the arts, Ku doesn’t encounter any athletes on a day-to-day basis and suspects a vast social division exists.
“I feel like athletes are very secluded in their control bubble and their own friend group,” Ku said. “Because of different interests and not a lot of overlapping time together, it just so happens to be that I don’t really have any runner friends.”
Student-athletes have a unique commitment at Tufts, typically spending 10–15 hours a week training together during their game s