[81alum]

What a great video.  And what a contrast to places like Iowa State, where subtle homophobia has been used as a recruiting tool,

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/news/story...thyclimate

or Baylor, which imposed a gag order on Britanny Griner not to talk about her sexuality

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/...ent-womens

or perhaps Connecticut--the rumors (discussed by Geno, of all people) are that Pat Summit apparently cancelled the series with them after believing Geno was using homophobia to influence a recruit.

http://www.winninghoops.com/pages/Breaki...ivalry.php

Sad to learn that our alum Kate Starbird declined to enter coaching because she did not want to remain in the closet, and it seemed impossible to be openly gay and coach at the same time.

Some women, both at the college and professional level, decide to avoid the drama altogether. Kate Starbird, who spent nine years in the WNBA and Europe, is gay. And she wants no part of the closet. "I never considered coaching," she says. "I didn't want to live my life that way." These days, Starbird is a PhD candidate in technology, media and society at Colorado.

In short, these despicable practices elsewhere make me doubly appreciate Stanford athletics.  We are proving that it is possible to succeed while maintaining a high level of ethics, in sharp contrast to some of our biggest rivals. 

[81alum]

What a great video.  And what a contrast to places like Iowa State, where subtle homophobia has been used as a recruiting tool,

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/news/story...thyclimate

or Baylor, which imposed a gag order on Britanny Griner not to talk about her sexuality

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/...ent-womens

or perhaps Connecticut--the rumors (discussed by Geno, of all people) are that Pat Summit apparently cancelled the series with them after believing Geno was using homophobia to influence a recruit.

http://www.winninghoops.com/pages/Breaki...ivalry.php

Sad to learn that our alum Kate Starbird declined to enter coaching because she did not want to remain in the closet, and it seemed impossible to be openly gay and coach at the same time.

Some women, both at the college and professional level, decide to avoid the drama altogether. Kate Starbird, who spent nine years in the WNBA and Europe, is gay. And she wants no part of the closet. "I never considered coaching," she says. "I didn't want to live my life that way." These days, Starbird is a PhD candidate in technology, media and society at Colorado.

In short, these despicable practices elsewhere make me doubly appreciate Stanford athletics.  We are proving that it is possible to succeed while maintaining a high level of ethics, in sharp contrast to some of our biggest rivals.