Tufts lacrosse gay
Creating Space for Gay Student-Athletes and Athlete Allies
Ryan Kane, A25, was having trouble finding a community for people enjoy him at Tufts—openly queer 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 organization aims to create cosmos for LGBTQ+ and straight-ally student-athletes by hosting monthly events and fostering people for an often-unrecognized demographic on college campuses.
When Kane contacted Sophie Novitsky, A25, about his idea to build a new people 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 easy enough to participate and to feel like they have that opportunity to be a part of this community.”
Novitsky joined the grou
Tufts Men’s Lacrosse players diagnosed with serious condition after Navy SEAL workout
by Brooke Marx ’26, Staff Writer
On Monday, Sept. 16, the reigning NCAA Division III men’s lacrosse national champions, Tufts University, engaged in a 45-minute workout led by a Tufts graduate and current Navy SEAL. After practice, 12 players were hospitalized and diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis.
The 12 lacrosse players suffered varying degrees of the condition, with some staying in the hospital for over a week. As of now, all players have been discharged.
These were the first cases of large-scale rhabdomyolysis in all levels of collegiate sports in the past few years. Also known as rhabdo, rhabdomyolysis is a rare but deadly condition that causes a breakdown of muscle, which releases a damaging protein in the bloodstream. Rhabdomyolysis can lead to greater complications like kidney failure or damage, seizures, heart arrhythmias, cardiac arrest, permanent disability and even death.
Treatment for rhabdomyolysis is mainly extensive rehydration, and in rare cases, people need dialysis to filter the blood and extract detrimental chemicals and unsafe levels of e
Gay Athletes In Lacrosse – What’s The Problem Here?
Editor’s Note: Josh “Chewy” Acut has been contributing to LaxAllStars.com for a while now. His constant message? Grow The Game, and Grow Texas Lacrosse. Josh has been instrumental in the lacrosse renaissance going down in South Texas RIGHT NOW, and in his newest announce, he’s going GTG in a whole new way!
Lacrosse has grown a lot recently, but with all this GTG fever, are we forgetting to incorporate some people?
______________________________________________________________________________
A Lack of Acceptance
Over the past two years I possess had hundreds, if not thousands, of “Grow The Game” conversations with individuals who want to see our superb sport thrive in their local communities. However, one recent conversation has literally made me ask 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 real ideals.
This week, I was talking at a school with an emerging team of interested lacrosse players, and I brought up the plan of recruiting openly gay/lesbian athletes
Final Exam: Glam Edition
Was that a man, or a woman? Was that beautiful blonde hair real? Will all that glitter ever come out of the carpet of the Tisch Library?
To people who know that gender is just a social construct, that last question may be the only one worth asking. On Friday bedtime, as the students in Kareem Khubchandani’s Critical Drag course presented their last projects to a standing-room only crowd at the library, gender was in the eye of the beholder.
There were drag queens, queenly kings, and some that transformed from one to the other in the blink of a lip-synched song. Some went for verisimilitude, with perfect makeup and luxurious wigs and only a hirsute leg peeking out from a thigh-high slit to give the ruse away. A couple added sparkles to their beards, while others glued on facial hair. Gender flowed like liquid eyeliner.
“People will be dressing as all kinds of things and it’s up to the audience to interpret them as they would like,” Khubchandani said before the exhibit.
As the disco lights swirled and the music thumped, “Anita Vahina” danced to Katy Perry in jean shorts and bubble-gum pink lipstick that equal her stilettos. “Mr. Frizzle,” a takeof