Ex-diver DeStephen first openly gay MU athlete

Contents:

• GAY MISSOURI LLEGE DIVER GO OUT A WNER
• EX-DIVER DESTEPHEN FIRST OPENLY GAY MU ATHLETE
• EX-DIVER DESTEPHEN FIRST OPENLY GAY MU ATHLETE
• GAY MISSOURI DIVER GREG DESTEPHEN WENT OM BEG OUTED AND SHUNNED TO PTA OF SWIM TEAM
• COLLEGE ROUNDUP: GAY SWIMMERS GO HEAD-TO-HEAD MISSOURI
• COLLEGE ROUNDUP: GAY SWIMMERS GO HEAD-TO-HEAD MISSOURI
• EX-DIVER DESTEPHEN FIRST OPENLY GAY MU ATHLETE
• GAY MISSOURI
• 5 TIM OPENLY GAY DIVER MATTHEW MCHAM SLAYED, AND OUT OF HIS SPEEDOS
• GAY MISSOURI TRAVEL GUI
• THE BEST MISSOURI GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MISSOURI
• ALL-AMERIN DIVER AND BIG TEN CHAMPN CONOR MURPHY CELEBRAT BEG GAY AT INDIANA

GAY MISSOURI LLEGE DIVER GO OUT A WNER

Goodw, who is gay, sred 68.

“I still had a few small mistak that I know that I n improve on for like SECs, Zon and NCAAs, ” said Goodw, who is gay. Goodw has been out as gay to his Missouri teammat sce the summer before his hman year.

EX-DIVER DESTEPHEN FIRST OPENLY GAY MU ATHLETE

He started actg on his feelgs of beg gay at the end of high school after a guy reached out to him on Facebook that he met when he went to prom wh a female iend.

Goodw said he “never had any issu” om teammat or ach Columbia about beg gay.

EX-DIVER DESTEPHEN FIRST OPENLY GAY MU ATHLETE

Aidan Famoff (sophomore, Florida State men’s divg) fished send on both 1-meter (292. Matt Kravz (junr, Lehigh men’s track & field), Sam Laydg (senr, Lehigh men’s track & field), Michael Mchell (sophomore, Lehigh men’s track & field) and Sie Poore (sophomore, Lehigh women’s track & field) peted a meet agast Lehigh on Jan. Dawson LaRance (sophomore, Mnota men’s track & field) and Anton Woodard (redshirt junr, Iowa men’s track & field) peted at Iowa’s Wieczorek Invatnal on Jan.

Sam Lewis (sophomore, Southern California men’s volleyball) rerd seven kills and four blocks for the Trojans (5-3 overall) Friday’s four-set loss to No. Andre Williams (sophomore, Central Missouri men’s track & field) peted three events at Saturday’s Ptsburgh State Invatnal, and his bt rult was 36th the 60 meters (7. Isaac Hanson (sophomore, Hamle men’s swimmg) peted four events durg a three-team meet Jan.

6, 2008 file photo, Greg DeStephens, a sophomore at the Universy of Missouri Divg team, gets out of the pool after a dive at practice at the Universy of Missouri, Columbia. DeStephen alt wh beg outed as gay, havg hostile teammat and divg wh a broken back his hman year, but none of stopped him om beg a four-time All-Amerin diver at Missouri. He is also the only Missouri athlete to publicly say he is gay while actively petg.

GAY MISSOURI DIVER GREG DESTEPHEN WENT OM BEG OUTED AND SHUNNED TO PTA OF SWIM TEAM

(AP) - Greg DeStephen alt wh beg outed as gay, havg hostile teammat and divg wh a broken back his hman year, but none of stopped him om beg a four-time All-Amerin diver at Missouri. He is also the only Missouri athlete to publicly say he is gay while actively petg, the Columbia Missourian () reports.

But the tought challenge me when a teammate broke his tst and told the rt of the team that he was gay whout his permissn.

He told only three iends Oh that he was gay before g to Columbia. "I was startg to figure out more that I was gay, but I was still also hangg out wh girls as well at that pot, " he says of his first uple months at Missouri. "I was startg to e to terms wh (beg gay).

COLLEGE ROUNDUP: GAY SWIMMERS GO HEAD-TO-HEAD MISSOURI

"It's part of society's beliefs that a gay man n't be as athletic and succsful as a straight man, " DeStephen says of sports overall.

In May of his sophomore year, DeStephen read a story on about Maryland-Baltimore County swimmer Fred Deal announcg he was gay. DeStephen sent the webse an email that he liked the Deal story and that he was a gay diver himself. The se rpond askg if uld tell his story - the gay All-Amerin diver the heartland.

COLLEGE ROUNDUP: GAY SWIMMERS GO HEAD-TO-HEAD MISSOURI

He had to fally tell his parents that he was gay. "I wanted to let you know that I am gay, " DeStephen said to his dad, Steve.

EX-DIVER DESTEPHEN FIRST OPENLY GAY MU ATHLETE

He would soon tell the world he was gay. “I was startg to figure out more that I was gay, but I was still also hangg out wh girls as well at that pot, ” he says of his first uple months at Missouri. “I was startg to e to terms wh (beg gay).

“It’s part of society’s beliefs that a gay man n’t be as athletic and succsful as a straight man, ” DeStephen says of sports overall. “I wanted to let you know that I am gay, ” DeStephen said to his dad, Steve. The article not that DeStephen was the first openly gay athlete at the school, beatg Michael Sam by a uple of years.

GAY MISSOURI

There are a lot of people here om small, nservative muni who have never known an [out] gay person. People who had never met a gay person now have met a gay person. And do Coach Sweeney, who knows Greg is gay, feel protective of his star diver?

5 TIM OPENLY GAY DIVER MATTHEW MCHAM SLAYED, AND OUT OF HIS SPEEDOS

I llege football or basketball player who happens to be gay. Ayrton Kasemets (sophomore, Oakland) opened his swimmg season Friday by petg five relays at Notre Dame the Dennis Stark Relays, and the bt fish was sixth the 3x100-yard breaststroke.

Alex Obendorf (sophomore, Wt Virgia) won both the 1-meter and 3-meter sprgboard divg events at the season-openg Wt Virgia State Gam on Thursday and Friday.

To end the fall tennis season, Michael Drougas (sophomore, Oberl College) won his sgl and doubl tennis match Saturday agast Wtenberg.

GAY MISSOURI TRAVEL GUI

(AP) — Greg DeStephen alt wh beg outed as gay, havg hostile teammat and divg wh a broken back his hman year, but none of stopped him om beg a four-time All-Amerin diver at Missouri. He is also the only Missouri athlete to publicly say he is gay while actively petg, the Columbia Missourian reports.

THE BEST MISSOURI GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MISSOURI

But the tought challenge me when a teammate broke his tst and told the rt of the team that he was gay whout his permissn. He told only three iends Oh that he was gay before g to Columbia.

"I was startg to figure out more that I was gay, but I was still also hangg out wh girls as well at that pot, " he says of his first uple months at Missouri. "I was startg to e to terms wh (beg gay).

"It's part of society's beliefs that a gay man n't be as athletic and succsful as a straight man, " DeStephen says of sports overall.

ALL-AMERIN DIVER AND BIG TEN CHAMPN CONOR MURPHY CELEBRAT BEG GAY AT INDIANA

In May of his sophomore year, DeStephen read a story on about Maryland-Baltimore County swimmer Fred Deal announcg he was gay. DeStephen sent the webse an email that he liked the Deal story and that he was a gay diver himself.

The se rpond askg if uld tell his story — the gay All-Amerin diver the heartland.

He had to fally tell his parents that he was gay. "I wanted to let you know that I am gay, " DeStephen said to his dad, Steve.